The Largest Program for Opioid Use Disorder in a Statewide Carceral System: A Collaborative Multi-Agency Initiative

Policy Points The government has a key role in ensuring equitable and just health care access for all constituents, including those involved with the criminal legal system. Multi-agency collaboration is a critical and effective path to ensure equitable health care access. Incarceration events can cause delays and disruptions in substance use disorder treatment, and treatment in carceral settings can prevent these adverse outcomes. Multi-agency collaborations can be strengthened by legislation, leadership support, the identification of shared goals, methods to share data, and subsequent accountability.