This study assessed differences in the delivery of buprenorphine versus methadone during acute medical or surgical hospitalizations for veterans with opioid use disorder (OUD) by racial categories (Black Non-Hispanic or Latino vs. White Non-Hispanic or Latino).

Kelsey C. Priest, MD PhD MPH, Caroline A. King, PhD MPH, Honora Englander, MD, Travis I. Lovejoy, PhD MPH and Dennis McCarty, PhD found that differences in hospital-based MOUD delivery may be influenced by MOUD received prior to hospitalization within the racialized outpatient addiction treatment system.

This original research article was just published in SAj Volume 43, Issue 1 on June 7, 2022. Read it now!

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