Association of Racial/Ethnic Segregation With Treatment Capacity for Opioid Use Disorder in Counties in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Treatment with methadone or buprenorphine is the current standard of care for opioid use disorder. Given the paucity of research identifying which patients will respond best to which medication, both medications should be accessible to all patients so that patients can determine which works best for them. However, given differences in the historical contexts of their initial implementation, access to each of these medications may vary along racial/ethnic lines.

Objective

To examine the extent to which capacity to provide methadone and buprenorphine vary with measures of racial/ethnic segregation.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study included all counties and county-equivalent divisions in the US in 2016. Data on racial/ethnic populat

SUBMITTER: Goedel WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7177200 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature