Hospital Addiction Consultation Service and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: The START Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are effective, but hospitalized people with opioid use disorder (OUD) seldom receive MOUD while in the hospital or link with treatment after.

Objective

To test whether an addiction-focused consultation service, the Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team (START), increases MOUD initiation during hospitalization and linkage to follow-up care after discharge.

Design, setting, and participants

This 1:1 randomized clinical trial grouped participants into the START intervention or usual care. The study was conducted between November 2021 and September 2023 at 3 hospitals in the following cities: Los Angeles, California; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Springfield, Massachusetts. The last follow-up was in December 2023. E

SUBMITTER: Ober AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11976642 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature