Implementing an Opioid Court Model (031)
Study Information
The New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)/Columbia University JCOIN Research Center is studying strategies to implement New York’s new opioid court model (OCM) in ten counties across the state. New York’s OCM was developed by the Unified Court System and provides practice guidelines for drug courts to reduce overdose, decrease recidivism, and improve service delivery and linkages to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for justice-involved individuals across the state. The goal of the study is to develop, evaluate, and refine implementation strategies to support the OCM practice guidelines to be scaled up across New York.
Study Settings: Courts, Treatment/Healthcare Settings
Study Location: New York
Publications:
- Stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial of a novel opioid court to improve identification of need and linkage to medications for opioid use disorder treatment for court-involved adults (2021)
- Examining the Impact of the Innovative Opioid Court Model on Treatment Access and Court Outcomes for Court Participants (2024)
Grant number: UG1DA050071
Link to NIH Reporter record: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9882751
Study Team
PI: Milton Wainberg, Ned Nunes, Katherine Elkington, Ph.D.
• Determine the implementation strategies that best facilitate scale-up of the new OCM
• Identify factors that facilitate/impede practice change
• Determine the effectiveness of the new opioid court model through the use of state administrative data to measure public health and public safety outcomes
• Estimate the cost effectiveness of the model
Clinical Trial, State Policy Rollout