Collaborating With Jails to Provide Community-based Medication for Opioid Use Disorder: Qualitative Perspectives From MOUD Treatment Providers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

As carceral settings increasingly offer medications for opioid use disorders (MOUD), community-based providers will need to navigate relationships with correctional agencies to ensure continuity of MOUD upon release. Although collaboration has been identified as critical between agencies, limited research is available that details how providers can work with jails. We describe the perspectives of MOUD providers about their experiences collaborating with jails that had recently begun to offer MOUD.

Methods

We conducted hour-long interviews with 36 MOUD providers from 18 community-based agencies. Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) concepts informed data collection and analysis.

Results

MOUD providers described agency-specific (in

SUBMITTER: Pivovarova E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11790359 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Feb 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature