Clinician Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators to Providing Medications for Opioid Use Disorder for Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite rising adolescent opioid overdose deaths, adolescents under the age of 18 years are frequently excluded from the provision of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD/OUD). As part of preimplementation work to inform the expansion of evidence-based practices to close this service gap, we designed this qualitative study to examine the perspectives of MOUD-providing clinicians on barriers and facilitators to providing MOUD for adolescents younger than 18.

Methods

We recruited clinicians who reported prescribing MOUD at least once per month, purposively sampling to include individuals who varied on training and practice backgrounds, experience prescribing to adolescents younger than 18, and practice settings (urban, suburban, and rural). We performed semistru

SUBMITTER: Ruth J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12577657 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov-Dec 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature