Opioid treatment program and community pharmacy collaboration for methadone maintenance treatment: results from a feasibility clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Pharmacy administration and dispensing of methadone for methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) can expand treatment access for opioid use disorder (OUD). This study investigated the feasibility and acceptability of a novel model permitting an opioid treatment program (OTP) physician to prescribe methadone for OUD treatment through collaboration with a partnered pharmacy.

Design

Non-randomized, single-arm, open-label feasibility trial.

Setting

One OTP and one community pharmacy in the United States.

Participants

One OTP physician, two pharmacists and 20 MMT patients receiving between six and 13 take-home methadone doses at 5-160 mg/day.

Intervention

Patients' methadone administration and dispensing of take-home doses was transferred fro

SUBMITTER: Wu LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748270 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature