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West Virginia's Model Of Buprenorphine Expansion: Preliminary Results, Erin L Winstanley, Laura R Lander, James H Berry, James J Mahoney, Wanhong Zheng, Jeremy Herschler, Patrick Marshalek, Sheena Sayres, Jay Mason, Marc W Haut
West Virginia's Model Of Buprenorphine Expansion: Preliminary Results, Erin L Winstanley, Laura R Lander, James H Berry, James J Mahoney, Wanhong Zheng, Jeremy Herschler, Patrick Marshalek, Sheena Sayres, Jay Mason, Marc W Haut
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West Virginia (WV) is situated at the epicenter of the opioid epidemic with the highest rates of overdose deaths and some of the lowest rates of access to life saving evidence-based medication assisted treatment (MAT) for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). WV used a modified hub-and-spoke model to build organizational capacity for facilities to use buprenorphine to treat patients with OUD and to provide ongoing case consultation. The purpose of this study is to 1) describe the group-base model of buprenorphine treatment and the model used to build organizational capacity, 2) to describe the preliminary results of buprenorphine expansion …