Medication-Assisted Therapy for Opioid-Dependent Incarcerated Populations in New Mexico: Statewide Efforts to Increase Access

• NCJ Number: 239138
• Journal: Substance Abuse Volume: 33 Issue: 1 Dated: January-March 2012 Pages: 76-84
• Author(s): Bruce G. Trigg, M.D.; Samuel L. Dickman, AB
• Date Published: February 2012
• Length: 9 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This article discusses drug treatments for opioid addiction.

Abstract

An acute awareness of the profound social and medical costs associated with heroin and opiate addiction in New Mexico has led a group of advocates from public health, state and local governments, corrections, academia, and community activists to collaborate for the purpose of increasing access to medication-assisted therapy (MAT) with buprenorphine and methadone in New Mexico. This paper describes these collaborations, with a focus on the evolution of harm reduction approaches to substance abuse disorders and successful efforts to make MAT available to incarcerated persons. (Published Abstract)