Referral to and engagement in substance use disorder treatment within opioid intervention courts in New York: a qualitative study of implementation barriers and facilitators

• Main Authors: Megan A. O'Grady (Author), Katherine S. Elkington (Author), Gail Robson (Author), Ikenna Y. Achebe (Author), Arthur Robin Williams (Author), Alwyn T. Cohall (Author), Renee Cohall (Author), Monica Christofferson (Author), Alejandra Garcia (Author), Kelly S. Ramsey (Author), Pat Lincourt (Author), Susan Tross (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background People with opioid use disorder (OUD) are frequently in contact with the court system and have markedly higher rates of fatal opioid overdose. Opioid intervention courts (OIC) were developed to address increasing rates of opioid overdose among court defendants by engaging court s...