Drugs & Substance Abuse in Corrections - Medical Assisted Treatment (MAT)

There is a national opioid epidemic and one intervention to help those suffering from an opioid use disorder (OUD) is medication-assisted treatment

COLUMBIA - Inmates suffering from addictions to heroin and prescription pain pills may soon have new treatment options in South Carolina prisons.

Philip Kirby says he first used heroin during a stint in a halfway house a few years ago, when he was 21 years old. He quickly formed a habit.

Using Narcan as a starting point for local and county corrections policies

Deputy Director Leary highlights examples of MAT programs that are viable and beneficial components of prison and re-entry services.

Incarceration is a relatively common experience among the estimated 15.6 million opioid-dependent adults in the world.1 In the US, it has been esti

Medication Assisted Treatment in the Connecticut Department of Correction PowerPoint presentation.

Many publications over the last decade have documented the alarming increase in use and abuse of prescription opioids and heroin (Cicero, Inciardi,

Prisons aren’t linking people to adequate addiction treatment - and many are dying as a result.

As the epidemic of opioid use in the United States continues to shift from prescription opioids to illicit drugs, more people living with opioid us

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Webinar: 1 hour, 18 minutes