The development of a recovery coaching training curriculum to facilitate linkage to and increase retention on medications for opioid use disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD) decreases opioid overdose risk and is the standard of care for persons with opioid use disorder (OUD). Recovery coach (RC)-led programs and associated training curriculums to improve outcomes around MOUD are limited. We describe our comprehensive training curriculum including instruction and pedagogy for novel RC-led MOUD linkage and retention programs and report on its feasibility.

Methods–pedagogy and training development

The Kentucky HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-term^SM) Communities Study (HCS) created the Linkage and Retention RC Programs with a local recovery community organization, Voices of Hope-Lexington. RCs worked to reduce participant barriers to entering or continuing MOUD, desti

SUBMITTER: Moffitt T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10903364 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature