The impact of COVID-19 on the treatment of opioid use disorder in carceral facilities: a cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Elizabeth C. Saunders (Author), Milan F. Satcher (Author), Laura B. Monico (Author), Ryan D. McDonald (Author), Sandra A. Springer (Author), David Farabee (Author), Jan Gryczynski (Author), Amesika Nyaku (Author), Donald Reeves (Author), Lynn E. Kunkel (Author), Alysse M. Schultheis (Author), Robert P. Schwartz (Author), Joshua D. Lee (Author), Lisa A. Marsch (Author), Elizabeth Needham Waddell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract While the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare delivery everywhere, persons with carceral system involvement and opioid use disorder (OUD) were disproportionately impacted and vulnerable to severe COVID-associated illness. Carceral settings and community treatment programs (CTPs) rapidly...