Syringe service program-based telemedicine linkage to opioid use disorder treatment: protocol for the STAMINA randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A key strategy for mitigating the current opioid epidemic is expanded access to medications for treating opioid use disorder (MOUD). However, interventions developed to expand MOUD access have limited ability to engage opioid users at higher levels of overdose risk, such as those who inject opioids. This paper describes the study protocol for testing STAMINA (Syringe Service Telemedicine Access for Medication-assisted Intervention through NAvigation), an intervention that engages high-risk opioid users at community-based syringe service programs (SSP) and quickly links them to MOUD using a telemedicine platform.

Methods

This randomized control trial will be conducted at three SSP sites in Chicago. All participants will complete an initial assessment with a provide

SUBMITTER: Watson DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8010496 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature