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14 Jun 2018
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Expanding Medication-Assisted Treatment to Curb the Opioid Epidemic

Expanding local access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is a critical step towards improving the lives of people with opioid use disorder and starting to curb the epidemic. AIR Principal Researcher Susan Heil talks about the barriers to adopting MAT and what can be done to assist its adoption, especially in rural areas with fewer primary care providers and prescribers.

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Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES)

Opioid misuse, overdose, and death has become a national public health emergency. AIR has a launched the Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES) to study and coordinate multi-system solutions to the opioid epidemic.

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Expanding Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Rural Primary Care

Oklahoma is among the states hardest hit by a combination of national trends in nonmedical uses of opioid prescription drugs, past-year heroin use, and opioid-related mortality. AIR recently led and evaluated a project for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—Increasing Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment Among Rural Providers—to train rural Oklahoma primary care clinicians to identify and treat patients with opioid use disorders using medication-assisted treatment, an evidence-based intervention that combines behavioral therapy and medication to treat substance use disorders.

Further Reading

  • Expanding Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Rural Primary Care
  • Opioid Misuse, Overdose, and Death: A National Public Health Emergency
  • Long Story Short: What Role Can Providers Play in Addressing the Prescription Opioid Epidemic?
  • Using Telehealth to Meet the Challenges of the Opioid Epidemic
  • Tackling the Opioid Epidemic Through Research and Patient Care
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