Structural Adaptations to Methadone Maintenance Treatment and Take-Home Dosing for Opioid Use Disorder in the Era of

Leslie W Suen1, William H Coe1, Janan P Wyatt1

  • 1Leslie W. Suen is with the National Clinician Scholars Program, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco. William H. Coe, Janan P. Wyatt, Zoe M. Adams, and Hannah M. Batchelor are with the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Mona Gandhi is with Clifford Beers, New Haven, CT. Stacy Castellanos is with the Center for Vulnerable Populations, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA. Neena Joshi and Kelly R. Knight are with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. Shannon Satterwhite is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis. Rafael Pérez-Rodríguez and Esther Rodríguez-Guerra are with Physician Correctional-DCR, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Carmen E. Albizu-Garcia is with the Center for Evaluation and Sociomedical Research, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan. Ayana Jordan is with the Departments of Psychiatry and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY.

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