Table 3.

Recommendations to address perceived barriers to treatment seeking.

Identified Barrier	Recommendations for Change
Do not perceive the need for treatment for AUD	Make treatments more engaging and appealing to consumers across a wide range of AUD stages
Do not subscribe to abstinence as a treatment goal	Engage patients across a range of health-enhancing drinking changes and goals, including conditional abstinence and controlled drinking
Do not know what treatment entails and has an outdated view that it is detoxification-focused	Update the landscape of AUD treatment by educating consumers about a range of treatment options in the outpatient levels of care and across a range of treatment goals
Do not have access to evidence-based treatments including pharmacotherapy and evidence-based psychotherapy	Incentivize providers in various settings to deliver evidence-based practices, including requirements for the reimbursement of care
Do not support the use of pharmacotherapies for relapse prevention	Educate consumers and providers about pharmacotherapy as an evidence-based practice, incentivize the delivery of evidence-based pharmacotherapy for AUD