Negative attitudes about medications for opioid use disorder among criminal legal staff.
| Autor: | Moore KE; Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, 420 Rogers-Stout Hall P.O. Box 70649, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA., Siebert SL; Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, 420 Rogers-Stout Hall P.O. Box 70649, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA., Kromash R; Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, 420 Rogers-Stout Hall P.O. Box 70649, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA., Owens MD; Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, USA., Allen DC; Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, 420 Rogers-Stout Hall P.O. Box 70649, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Drug and alcohol dependence reports [Drug Alcohol Depend Rep] 2022 Apr 25; Vol. 3, pp. 100056. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 25 (Print Publication: 2022). |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.dadr.2022.100056 |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Stigma is a barrier to the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) in the criminal legal system. Staff sometimes have negative attitudes about medications for OUD (i.e., MOUD), but there is little research on what drives these attitudes. How staff think about criminal involvement and addiction may explain their attitudes toward MOUD. Methods: A convenience sample of U.S. criminal legal staff (e.g., correctional/probation officers, nurses, psychologists, court personnel) were recruited via online methods ( N = 152). Participants completed an online survey of their attitudes about justice-involved people and addiction, and these were entered as predictors of an adapted version of the Opinions about Medication Assisted Treatment survey (OAMAT) in a linear regression, controlling for sociodemographics (cross-sectional design). Results: At the bivariate level, measures capturing more stigmatizing attitudes toward justice-involved people, believing addiction represents a moral weakness, and believing people with addiction are responsible for their actions and their recovery were related to more negative attitudes about MOUD, whereas higher educational attainment and believing addiction has a genetic basis were related to more positive attitudes about MOUD. In a linear regression, only stigma toward justice-involved people significantly predicted negative attitudes about MOUD ( B = -.27, p = .010). Conclusion: Criminal legal staff's stigmatizing attitudes about justice-involved people, such as believing they are untrustworthy and cannot be rehabilitated, contributed significantly to negative attitudes about MOUD, above their beliefs about addiction. The stigma tied to criminal involvement needs to be addressed in attempts to increase MOUD adoption in the criminal legal system. Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. (© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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