Barriers and Challenges to Making Referrals for Treatment and Services for Opioid Misuse in Family Planning Settings.

Background: In this opioid overdose epidemic, women are an overlooked group seeing increasing rates of overdose death. Implementation challenges have prevented evidence-based interventions from effectively reaching women who misuse opioids, with gaps in access to effective treatment and services. Fa...

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Publicado en:Journal of Women's Health (15409996) Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 38 - 47
Autores principales: Viera, Adam, Gotham, Heather, Cheng, An-Lin, Carlson, Kimberly, Witt, Jacki
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Jan2022
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          Viera, Adam
          Gotham, Heather
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          Carlson, Kimberly
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        affil: Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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          Substance Use Disorders Drug Therapy
          Health Services Accessibility
          Referral and Consultation
          Harm Reduction
          Family Planning
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      ab: Background: In this opioid overdose epidemic, women are an overlooked group seeing increasing rates of overdose death. Implementation challenges have prevented evidence-based interventions from effectively reaching women who misuse opioids, with gaps in access to effective treatment and services. Family planning clinics could serve as important points of contact for referral to needed treatments and services. The study explores how family planning staff knowledge and attitudes related to opioid misuse serve as potential barriers and challenges in making referrals for evidence-based services and treatments. Methods: In 2018, we conducted a national online survey of family planning staff, assessing knowledge and attitudes of treatments and services for opioid misuse. Results: A total of 691 family planning staff completed the survey. Most respondents agreed that opioid misuse was a major problem in their community (86.0%) and identified challenges in responding to it, including a lack of treatment access (70.3%), the absence of in-house behavioral health staff (67.2%), and unfamiliarity with local treatment providers (54.1%). Respondents reported low levels of acceptability for syringe services programs (46.0%), medications such as methadone and buprenorphine (55.4%), and naloxone to reverse opioid overdose (60.1%). Controlling for other factors, race/ethnicity, urbanicity, workplace role, and substance use training were associated with differences in acceptability. Conclusions: Family planning settings could play a critical role in connecting women who misuse opioids to treatment and services. Strategies are needed to increase the acceptability of evidence-based interventions and the feasibility of having family planning staff play a linkage role.
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