Elizabeth C Saunders, Milan F Satcher, Laura B Monico, Ryan D McDonald, Sandra A Springer, David Farabee, Jan Gryczynski, Amesika Nyaku, Donald Reeves, Lynn E Kunkel, Alysse M Schultheis, Robert P Schwartz, Joshua D Lee, Lisa A Marsch, Elizabeth Needham Waddell
While the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare delivery everywhere, persons with carceral system involvement and opioid use disorder (OUD) were disproportionately impacted and vulnerable to severe COVID-associated illness. Carceral settings and community treatment programs (CTPs) rapidly developed protocols to sustain healthcare delivery while reducing risk of COVID-19 transmission. This survey study assessed changes to OUD treatment, telemedicine use, and re-entry support services among carceral and CTPs participating in the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded study, Long-Acting Buprenorphine vs...
December 19, 2022: Health & Justice