State criminal justice policy context and opioid agonist treatment delivery among opioid treatment admissions, 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Criminal justice referral to treatment is associated with reduced odds of receiving opioid agonist treatment (OAT), the gold-standard treatment for opioid use disorder. States vary substantially in the extent of criminal justice system involvement in opioid treatment; however, the effects on treatment provision are not clear. We examined whether state-level criminal justice involvement in the substance use treatment system modified the association between criminal justice referral to treatment and OAT provision among opioid treatment admissions.

Methods

We conducted a random effects logistic regression to investigate how the effects of criminal justice referral to treatment on OAT provision differed in states with high vs. low state-level criminal justice involvem

SUBMITTER: Mantha S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7377924 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature