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SUBMITTER: Krawczyk N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035729 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20171201 12
People in the US criminal justice system experience high rates of opioid use disorder, overdose, and other adverse outcomes. Expanding treatment is a key strategy for addressing the opioid epidemic, but little is known about whether the criminal justice system refers people to the highest standard of treatment: the use of the opioid agonist therapies methadone or buprenorphine. We used 2014 data from the national Treatment Episode Data Set to examine the use of agonist treatment among justice-in ...[more]