ArticleJournal of substance abuse treatment2021
Views of barriers and facilitators to continuing methadone treatment upon release from jail among people receiving patient navigation services.
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- A Qualitative Systematic Review of Access to Substance Use Disorder Care in the United States Criminal Justice System.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Assessing the impact of jail-initiated medication for opioid use disorder: A multisite analysis of the SOMATICS collaborative.PloS one · 2024Trial
- Experiences of People Who Discontinue Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine Treatment Recently Released From Prison in New South Wales, Australia.Drug and alcohol review · 2026Article
- Implementing a peer navigation program for individuals with serious mental illness in the criminal legal system: insights and lessons learned.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Article
- National consensus statement on opioid agonist treatment in custodial settings.The Medical journal of Australia · 2025Article
- "Yeah, this is not going to work for me"-The impact of federal policy restrictions on methadone continuation upon release from jail or prison.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
- Linkage facilitation for opioid use disorder in criminal legal system contexts: a primer for researchers, clinicians, and legal practitioners.Health & justice · 2024Article
- Access to Services for Pregnant People With Opioid Use Disorder in Jails in the United States.Journal of correctional health care : the official journal of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care · 2023Article
- Peer Health Navigation Experiences Before and After Prison Release Among People With Opioid Use Disorder.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- "Just fighting for my life to stay alive": a qualitative investigation of barriers and facilitators to community re-entry among people with opioid use disorder and incarceration histories.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2023Article
- Availability of best practices for opioid use disorder in jails and related training and resource needs: findings from a national interview study of jails in heavily impacted counties in the U.S.Health & justice · 2022Article
- 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
- Scoping review of interventions to link individuals to substance use services at discharge from jail.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatient navigation has potential for assisting patients who initiate methadone during pretrial detention to enter and remain in treatment following release, but we know little about participants' experiences with this service.
methodsThis study drew a purposive sample of male and female participants (N = 17) from participants enrolled in a randomized trial of initiating methadone with vs. without patient navigation while in the Baltimore City Detention Center. The study interviewed participants in the community at 1 and 3 months following release and asked them about their experiences of reentry, methadone treatment continuation, drug use, and interactions with the patient navigator. The study recorded, transcribed, coded using Atlas.ti, and analyzed thematically the interviews.
resultsParticipants reported encountering four key challenges in the community: getting to treatment following release, assembling basic supports, managing criminal justice system demands, and staying in treatment. Participants' experiences of the patient navigator's support to address these challenges fell into six thematic groups: showing nonjudgmental caring and persistence, advocating within programs, brokering resources, managing interactions with the criminal justice system, balancing encouragement and self-determination, and offering genuine and familial-type support.
conclusionNearly all participants appreciated the navigator's support and deemed it helpful. The previously reported randomized trial found that participants assigned to initiate methadone treatment with navigation had higher rates of receiving their first "guest" methadone dose in the community but did not have significantly different rates of treatment enrollment or of illicit opioid use compared to those assigned to begin methadone treatment without navigation. Treatment programs should work to improve retention and postrelease outcomes among this population.
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