A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose prevention.

Autor:	Pepin MD; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States., Joseph JK; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States., Chapman BP; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States., McAuliffe C; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States., O'Donnell LK; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States., Marano RL; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States., Carreiro SP; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States., Garcia EJ; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States., Silk H; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States., Babu KM; UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United States.; Department of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in public health [Front Public Health] 2023 Jul 19; Vol. 11, pp. 1154813. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 19 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.3389/fpubh.2023.1154813
Abstrakt:	Mainstays of opioid overdose prevention include medications for opioid use disorder (e.g., methadone or buprenorphine) and naloxone distribution. Inadequate access to buprenorphine limits its uptake, especially in communities of color, and people with opioid use disorders encounter multiple barriers to obtaining necessary medications including insurance, transportation, and consistent availability of telephones. UMass Memorial Medical Center and our community partners sought to alleviate these barriers to treatment through the deployment of a mobile addiction service, called the Road to Care. Using this approach, multidisciplinary and interprofessional providers deliver holistic addiction care by centering our patients' needs with respect to scheduling, location, and convenience. This program also extends access to buprenorphine and naloxone among people experiencing homelessness. Additional systemic and individualized barriers encountered are identified, as well as potential solutions for future mobile addiction service utilization. Over a two-year period, we have cared for 1,121 individuals who have accessed our mobile addiction service in over 4,567 encounters. We prescribed buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone®) to 330 individuals (29.4% of all patients). We have distributed nearly 250 naloxone kits directly on-site or and more than 300 kits via prescriptions to local pharmacies. To date, 74 naloxone rescue attempts have been reported back to us. We have demonstrated that a community-based mobile addiction service, anchored within a major medical center, can provide high-volume and high-quality overdose prevention services that facilitate engagement with additional treatment. Our experience is described as a case study below. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2023 Pepin, Joseph, Chapman, McAuliffe, O’Donnell, Marano, Carreiro, Garcia, Silk and Babu.)
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