ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2021
Medicaid Expansion Increased Medications For Opioid Use Disorder Among Adults Referred By Criminal Justice Agencies.
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- Medications for opioid use disorders among incarcerated persons and those in the community supervision setting: exploration of implementation issues with key stakeholders.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2024Article
- State drug caps associated with fewer Medicaid-covered prescriptions for opioid use disorder, 2017-2022.Health affairs scholar · 2024Article
- Changes in legal referrals to specialty substance use disorder treatment from 2015-2019.Health & justice · 2024Article
- Disparities in Medication Use for Criminal Justice System-Referred Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.JAMA health forum · 2024Article
- Medicaid Expansion and Mortality Among Persons Who Were Formerly Incarcerated.JAMA network open · 2024Article
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- Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy and Infectious Diseases Care for Justice-Involved Populations.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024Review
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- Allocation of federal funding to address the opioid overdose crisis in the criminal legal system.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- Buprenorphine and opioid analgesics: Dispensation and discontinuity among accidental overdose fatalities in the Indianapolis metropolitan area, 2016-2021.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
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Abstract
Individuals involved with the US criminal justice system have high rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) but face significant barriers to evidence-based treatment. Using 2008-17 data from the Treatment Episode Data Set-Admissions, we examined trends in receipt of medications for OUD among individuals referred by criminal justice agencies and other sources both before and after Medicaid expansion. Individuals referred by criminal justice agencies were less likely to receive medications for OUD than were those referred by other sources during our study period, although this disparity narrowed slightly after Medicaid expansion. Receipt of medications for OUD increased more for individuals referred by criminal justice agencies in states that expanded Medicaid compared with those in states that did not. Medicaid expansion may improve evidence-based treatment for individuals with criminal justice involvement and OUD, although additional policy change outside the health care sector is likely needed to reduce persistent treatment disparities.
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