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Laura Lutgen-Nieves1, Wendy P Guastaferro2, Brent Teasdale3
1Department of Criminal Justice, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA.
Methods:
This research compares characteristics related to receipt of medications for OUD (MOUD) across treatment episodes referred by the criminal justice system and those referred by other sources, utilizing 639,199 cases from the 2018 U.S. Treatment Episode Data Set-Discharges.
Results:
MOUD receipt was more than twice as likely in the non-criminal justice sample than the criminal justice sample (33% compared to 15%, respectively). The impact of demographics, substance use, need for and characteristics of treatment, and access to treatment on MOUD receipt vary considerably across the two samples.
Conclusions:
Understanding characteristics that inhibit and facilitate MOUD access can strengthen the public health approach to intervention, particularly for justice-involved individuals.
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