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How corrections can provide medications for justice‐involved individuals with OUD
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.33031
Subject(s) - opioid use disorder , buprenorphine , naltrexone , outreach , methadone , economic justice , opioid , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , criminology , family medicine , political science , law , receptor
Attendees of the American Association of the Treatment with Opioid Dependence (AATOD) virtual conference last week learned from Elizabeth Gondles, Ph.D., with the American Correctional Association (ACA), of the strides made in outreach as justice‐involved individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) can now get access, increasingly, to the medications methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone.