Commentary on Socias et al.: It is time to be serious about AUD treatment disparities.

The authors comment on the study "Using a cascade of care framework to identify gaps in access to medications for alcohol use disorder in British Columbia (BC), Canada" by M. E. Socias and colleagues, which uses administrative health records for 2015-19 from BC to describe the alcohol use disorder (AUD) care cascade. Topics discussed include percentage of specialty substance use disorder treatment programs that offered oral naltrexone for AUD, and benefits of telemedicine.