ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2011
Patterns in admission delays to outpatient methadone treatment in the United States.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 90 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Correlates of cocaine use during methadone treatment: implications for screening and clinical management (ANRS Methaville study).Harm reduction journal · 2016Trial
- Mindfulness-based relapse prevention with racial and ethnic minority women.Addictive behaviors · 2013Trial
- Retention in methadone and buprenorphine treatment among African Americans.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2013Trial
- Patient perspectives on choosing buprenorphine over methadone in an urban, equal-access system.The American journal on addictionsTrial
- Implementing Three-Day Methadone in a Low-Threshold Bridge Clinic: Impact of OTP Referral Pathways on Treatment Retention.Research square · 2026Article
- Understanding overdose risk and response in permanent supportive housing: results of focus groups with tenants, staff, and leaders.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
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- Spatial inequities in access to medications for treatment of opioid use disorder highlight scarcity of methadone providers under counterfactual scenarios.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Mobile addiction treatment and harm reduction services as tools to address health inequities: a community case study of the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center mobile unit.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Spatial inequities in access to medications for treatment of opioid use disorder highlight scarcity of methadone providers under counterfactual scenarios.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2023Article
- Typology of laws restricting access to methadone treatment in the United States: A latent class analysis.The International journal on drug policy · 2023Article
- Methadone Treatment Gap in Tennessee and How Medication Units Could Bridge the Gap: A Review.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- History of the discovery, development, and FDA-approval of buprenorphine medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2023Review
- Comparative Safety Analysis of Opioid Agonist Treatment in Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder: A Population-Based Study.Drug safety · 2023Article
- Group-based medical mistrust and care expectations among black patients seeking addiction treatment.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2022Article
- Association Between Assistance With Medicaid Enrollment and Use of Health Care After Incarceration Among Adults With a History of Substance Use.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Differences in the delivery of medications for opioid use disorder during hospitalization by racial categories: A retrospective cohort analysis.Substance abuse · 2022Article
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Abstract
Waiting lists for methadone treatment have existed in many U.S. communities, but little is known nationally about what patient and service system factors are related to admission delays that stem from program capacity shortfalls. Using a combination of national data sources, this study examined patterns in capacity-related admission delays to outpatient methadone treatment in 40 U.S. metropolitan areas (N = 28,920). Patient characteristics associated with admission delays included racial/ethnic minority status, lower education, criminal justice referral, prior treatment experience, secondary cocaine or alcohol use, and co-occurring psychiatric problems. Injection drug users experienced fewer delays, as did self-pay patients and referrals from health care and addiction treatment providers. Higher community-level utilization of methadone treatment was associated with delay, whereas delays were less common in communities with higher utilization of alternative modalities. These findings highlight potential disparities in timely admission to outpatient methadone treatment. Implications for improving treatment access and service system monitoring are discussed.
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