ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2020
Self-Help Groups And Medication Use In Opioid Addiction Treatment: A National Analysis.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Exploring the Determinants of Treatment Completion Among Youth Who Received Medication-Assisted Treatment in the United States.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of Mutual Help Groups for Illicit Drug Use Disorders: A Review of the Current Literature.Current addiction reports · 2025Article
- Disparities in Medication Use for Criminal Justice System-Referred Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.JAMA health forum · 2024Article
- Prevalence and correlates of 12-step and second-wave mutual-help attendance in a nationally representative US sample.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Alcohol or Drug Self-Help Use Among Adults in the United States: Age, Period, and Cohort Effects Between 2002 and 2018.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2023Article
- Medication for opioid use disorder treatment continuity post-release from jail: A qualitative study with community-based treatment providers.The International journal on drug policy · 2022Article
- Association between Prescribers' Perceptions of the Utilization of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Opioid Dependence Treatability.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Nationwide Survey Study of Recovery Community Centers Supporting People in Recovery From Substance Use Disorder.Journal of addiction medicineArticle
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Abstract
Self-help groups and medications (buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone) both play important roles in opioid addiction treatment. The relative use of these two treatment modalities has not been characterized in a national study. Using national treatment data, we found that self-help groups were rarely provided in conjunction with medication treatment: Among all adult discharges from opioid addiction treatment in the period 2015-17, 10.4 percent used both self-help groups and medications, 29.2 percent used only medications, 29.8 percent used only self-help groups, and 30.5 percent used neither self-help groups nor medications. Use of self-help groups without medication is most common in residential facilities, among those with criminal justice referrals, and among uninsured or privately insured patients, as well as in the South and West regions of the US. These subgroups may be important targets for future efforts to identify and overcome barriers to medication treatment and create multimodal paths to recovery.
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