Psychosocial Supports in Medication-Assisted Treatment: Site Visit Findings and Conclusions

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Profiles 5 programs that offer medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD), including several with rural components. Covers psychosocial support offered, staffing and staff training, collaboration and coordination, financing, data collection and quality improvement, lessons learned, and next steps for each program. Discusses the aspects of psychosocial support that are most important for positive outcomes, types of psychosocial support being used, and factors helping or impeding psychosocial support implementation, including stigma and workforce challenges. Appendix B reviews the literature on psychosocial support in MAT.

Garrett Moran, Hannah Knudsen, Caroline Snyder

07/2019

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HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Behavioral health workforce · Illicit drug use · Prescription drug misuse · Social connectedness · Stigma · Connecticut · New Mexico · Pennsylvania · West Virginia