Telehealth offers the criminal justice system an innovative strategy for intervention and treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) for people who have been incarcerated.
Justice stakeholders reap at least three benefits. Telehealth can help reduce healthcare costs. Connecting individuals to providers via telehealth can help avoid resource-heavy—and potentially dangerous—transfers to care settings. Telehealth can ease the burden of recruiting and retaining health care providers on site, particularly behavioral health providers.