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Pious Patel1, Rahul Ramaswamy1, Ramzi Mardam Bey2
1Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Abstract:
Effective treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) must target both the medical and psychosocial aspects of a patient's condition. This, in turn, requires a collaboration between medical providers and social supports. We would like to illustrate a key difficulty in this collaboration for some patients in our country: many post-discharge recovery houses continue to refuse to allow patients to remain on medication treatment for OUD (M-OUD). This barrier to M-OUD access in recovery houses is a significant obstacle to effective OUD treatment.
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