ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence reports2022
Negative attitudes about medications for opioid use disorder among criminal legal staff.
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- A multi-level intervention to reduce the stigma of substance use and criminal involvement: a pilot feasibility trial protocol.Health & justice · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Stigma is a barrier to the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in the criminal legal system. Staff sometimes have negative attitudes about medications for OUD (i.e., MOUD), but there is little research on what drives these attitudes. How staff think about criminal involvement and addiction may explain their attitudes toward MOUD. Methods: A convenience sample of U.S. criminal legal staff (e.g., correctional/probation officers, nurses, psychologists, court personnel) were recruited via online methods ( Results: At the bivariate level, measures capturing more stigmatizing attitudes toward justice-involved people, believing addiction represents a moral weakness, and believing people with addiction are responsible for their actions and their recovery were related to more negative attitudes about MOUD, whereas higher educational attainment and believing addiction has a genetic basis were related to more positive attitudes about MOUD. In a linear regression, only stigma toward justice-involved people significantly predicted negative attitudes about MOUD ( Conclusion: Criminal legal staff's stigmatizing attitudes about justice-involved people, such as believing they are untrustworthy and cannot be rehabilitated, contributed significantly to negative attitudes about MOUD, above their beliefs about addiction. The stigma tied to criminal involvement needs to be addressed in attempts to increase MOUD adoption in the criminal legal system.
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