What is it about?
We looked at a drug treatment court program's implementation of Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) employing burprenorphine, naltrexone, or methadone for opioid dependent participants. We explored characteristics associated with receiving MAT, the impact of MAT on program completion, and participant and staff reactions to MAT implementation.
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Why is it important?
Increasingly, the participants in drug treatment court are dependent on opioids. Although criminal justice professionals have not supported MAT in the past, this may be changing. This study focuses on one of the few and first systematic studies of the MAT implementation process in a drug court.
Perspectives
In the context of the current US opioid overdose epidemic, the implementation of medication assisted treatment (MAT) is of critical importance in criminal justice settings. This paper underscores some key challenges and obstacles and provides a preliminary assessment of the impact of MAT on drug court completion in an urban, Midwestern setting.
Michael Fendrich
University of Connecticut School of Social Work
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This page is a summary of: Implementing access to medication assisted treatment in a drug treatment court: Correlates, consequences, and obstacles, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, April 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10509674.2019.1582573.
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