Geographic Disparities in Availability of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment for Medicaid Enrollees.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine county-level geographic variation in treatment admissions among opioid treatment programs (OTPs) that accept Medicaid in the continental United States.

Data sources/study setting

Data come from the 2012 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services.

Study design/data collection

We used local measures of spatial autocorrelation (LISA) analysis to identify (1) clusters of counties with higher and lower than average rates of opioid use disorders and (2) clusters of counties with higher and lower than average treatment admissions among OTPs that accept Medicaid, adjusting for county population size.

Principal findings

Our results reveal several clusters of counties with higher than average rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) and lower th

SUBMITTER: Abraham AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785305 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature