Impact of an intervention to implement provision of opioid use disorder medication among patients with and without co-occurring substance use disorders

Co-occurring substance use disorders (SUDs) are common among people with opioid use disorder (OUD) and known to hinder receipt of medications for OUD (MOUD). How MOUD care implemented outside of SUD specialty settings impacts access for patients with co-occurring SUDs is important to understand. The Veterans Health Administration's (VA) Stepped Care for Opioid Use Disorder Train the Trainer (SCOUTT) initiative was implemented in primary care, mental health, and pain clinics in 18 VA facilities, and was found to increase MOUD receipt.
Source: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment - Category: Addiction Authors: Source Type: research