Development and Testing of a Digital Coach Extender Platform for MOUD Uptake

The authors describe a pilot that will include development of a Coaching Extender Platform (CEP), an asynchronous communication approach that does not require live or synchronous communication between the coach and the site. CEP’s objective is to provide an affordable way to extend the coaching function and increase coaching effectiveness. The pilot has two study…

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Linkage facilitation for opioid use disorder in criminal legal system contexts: a primer for researchers, clinicians, and legal practitioners

Persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) in the United States are significantly vulnerable to contact with the criminal legal system (CLS). In CLS settings, provision of evidence-based treatment for OUD is variable and often secondary to punitive approaches. Linkage facilitation at every touch point along the CLS Sequential Intercept Model has potential to redirect persons…

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Using implementation science to improve evidence-based policing

This paper provides research and practice agendas for integrating implementation science methods and frameworks into evidence-based policing, as police seek to adopt evidence-informed practices that deliver public safety, respect rights, and increase community satisfaction and trust.

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A multi-level intervention to reduce the stigma of substance use and criminal involvement: a pilot feasibility trial protocol

This paper presents the protocol for a non-randomized trial of a multi-level stigma intervention called Combatting Stigma to Aid Reentry and Recovery (CSTARR) that involves two interventions: (1) training for criminal legal staff to address public stigma and (2) group-based acceptance and commitment therapy to address self-stigma among legally-involved adults enrolled in substance use treatment.…

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Quality of participants’ relationships to peer recovery support specialists as a function of perceived similarities

A growing evidence base supports the value of peer recovery support specialists (PRSS), particularly due to shared lived experience with participants (recipients of PRSS services). Little research has examined whether congruence on certain aspects of “peerness” (e.g., demographics, experiences) matters for PRSS-participant relationships. Results from this pilot study suggest that PRSS-participant alignment on past experiences…

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An Exploratory Study of Overlapping Stigmas and Substance Use Stigma Among Women with Substance Use Histories who are Incarcerated

Despite the overwhelmingly negative impacts of substance use stigma, little is known about how multiple, overlapping stigmatized identities, experiences, or characteristics (henceforth stigmas) may be related to perceived substance use stigma, especially in a sample of women who are incarcerated. This study profiled stigmas reported by women in jail with substance use histories and investigated…

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Social support networks of incarcerated women with OUD: Differences associated with jail-based substance use treatment

Social support is a critical factor for women’s engagement with substance use treatment and recovery, particularly for women with criminal-legal system involvement. However, less is known about the social support networks of incarcerated women, particularly as a function of service engagement. Thus, this paper aims to describe the structure, composition, and function of social support…

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Overdose experiences among a sample of women in jail with OUD

Previous non-fatal overdose may increase risk of overdose fatality for women reentering the community following incarceration, but pre-incarceration overdose experiences are understudied. This study describes the prevalence and correlates of non-fatal overdose prior to jail among women with opioid use disorder (OUD).

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Dimensions of Uncertainty: A spatiotemporal review of five COVID-19 datasets

COVID-19 case and death data are essential to understanding the pandemic and serve as key inputs for prediction models that inform policy-decisions; consistent information across datasets is critical to ensuring coherent findings. We implement an exploratory data analytic approach to characterize, synthesize, and visualize spatial-temporal dimensions of uncertainty across commonly used datasets for case and…

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