A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose prevention
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...
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| author | Michael D. Pepin Michael D. Pepin Jillian K. Joseph Jillian K. Joseph Brittany P. Chapman Brittany P. Chapman Christina McAuliffe Christina McAuliffe Logan K. O’Donnell Ryan L. Marano Ryan L. Marano Stephanie P. Carreiro Stephanie P. Carreiro Erik J. Garcia Erik J. Garcia Hugh Silk Hugh Silk Kavita M. Babu Kavita M. Babu |
| author_facet | Michael D. Pepin Michael D. Pepin Jillian K. Joseph Jillian K. Joseph Brittany P. Chapman Brittany P. Chapman Christina McAuliffe Christina McAuliffe Logan K. O’Donnell Ryan L. Marano Ryan L. Marano Stephanie P. Carreiro Stephanie P. Carreiro Erik J. Garcia Erik J. Garcia Hugh Silk Hugh Silk Kavita M. Babu Kavita M. Babu |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cebae5e021574bac96233dcc37f8b4922023-07-19T07:50:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-07-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.11548131154813A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose preventionMichael D. Pepin0Michael D. Pepin1Jillian K. Joseph2Jillian K. Joseph3Brittany P. Chapman4Brittany P. Chapman5Christina McAuliffe6Christina McAuliffe7Logan K. O’Donnell8Ryan L. Marano9Ryan L. Marano10Stephanie P. Carreiro11Stephanie P. Carreiro12Erik J. Garcia13Erik J. Garcia14Hugh Silk15Hugh Silk16Kavita M. Babu17Kavita M. Babu18UMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesUMass Memorial Health, Worcester, MA, United StatesDepartment of Emergency Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United StatesMainstays 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1154813/fullhomelessnessaddictionoverdosecommunity healthsuboxone treatmentmobile health |
| spellingShingle | Michael D. Pepin Michael D. Pepin Jillian K. Joseph Jillian K. Joseph Brittany P. Chapman Brittany P. Chapman Christina McAuliffe Christina McAuliffe Logan K. O’Donnell Ryan L. Marano Ryan L. Marano Stephanie P. Carreiro Stephanie P. Carreiro Erik J. Garcia Erik J. Garcia Hugh Silk Hugh Silk Kavita M. Babu Kavita M. Babu A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose prevention Frontiers in Public Health homelessness addiction overdose community health suboxone treatment mobile health |
| title | A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose prevention |
| title_full | A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose prevention |
| title_fullStr | A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose prevention |
| title_full_unstemmed | A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose prevention |
| title_short | A mobile addiction service for community-based overdose prevention |
| title_sort | mobile addiction service for community based overdose prevention |
| topic | homelessness addiction overdose community health suboxone treatment mobile health |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1154813/full |
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