Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2015
Effect of an organizational linkage intervention on staff perceptions of medication-assisted treatment and referral intentions in community corrections.
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Using narrative and informational messages to improve correctional professionals' attitudes toward medications for opioid use disorder.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Exploration of the multi-level barriers to scaling up methadone for HIV prevention among people who inject drugs in Kazakhstan.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
- Police Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About Opioid Addiction Treatment and Harm Reduction: A Survey of Illinois Officers.Journal of drug issues · 2025Article
- Perspectives of substance use disorder counselors on the benefits and drawbacks of medications for opioid use disorder.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- THE WHO, WHAT, AND HOW OF INTERAGENCY CRIMINAL JUSTICE-BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TEAMS: Developing and Sustaining Collaborations.Criminal justice and behavior · 2025Article
- Implementing Reform: Approaches to Alter the Use of Local Jail for People with Behavioral Health Conditions.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2024Article
- Facilitating factors and barriers for use of medications to treat opioid use disorder (MOUD) among justice-involved individuals in rural Appalachia.Journal of community psychology · 2024Article
- Perceptions of structural and provider-based substance use stigma interventions among primary care professionals.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- Receipt of medications for opioid use disorder before and after incarceration in Massachusetts State prisons, 2014-2019.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2024Article
- Linkage facilitation for opioid use disorder in criminal legal system contexts: a primer for researchers, clinicians, and legal practitioners.Health & justice · 2024Article
- The influence of familial networks and stigma on prison-based medication initiation for individuals with opioid use disorder: Clinicians' perceptions.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Perspectives of substance use disorder counselors on the benefits and drawbacks of medications for opioid use disorder.Research square · 2024Article
- Referral to and engagement in substance use disorder treatment within opioid intervention courts in New York: a qualitative study of implementation barriers and facilitators.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionMedication-assisted treatment (MAT) is effective for alcohol and opioid use disorders but it is stigmatized and underutilized in criminal justice settings.
methodsThis study cluster-randomized 20 community corrections sites to determine whether an experimental implementation strategy of training and an organizational linkage intervention improved staff perceptions of MAT and referral intentions more than training alone. The 3-hour training was designed to address deficits in knowledge, perceptions and referral information, and the organizational linkage intervention brought together community corrections and addiction treatment agencies in an interagency strategic planning and implementation process over 12 months.
resultsAlthough training alone was associated with increases in familiarity with pharmacotherapy and knowledge of where to refer clients, the experimental intervention produced significantly greater improvements in functional attitudes (e.g. that MAT is helpful to clients) and referral intentions. Corrections staff demonstrated greater improvements in functional perceptions and intent to refer opioid dependent clients for MAT than did treatment staff.
conclusionKnowledge, perceptions and information training plus interorganizational strategic planning intervention is an effective means to change attitudes and intent to refer clients for medication assisted treatment in community corrections settings, especially among corrections staff.
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