yet fewer than half of U.S. jails offer jail-based MAT or Medication Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) treatment, creating a critical care gap and a key opportunity to address a nationwide public health ...

Though more than two-thirds of Ohio jails provide medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, the investigation found that not everyone incarcerated in Ohio jails received the treatment.

Advocates say that the benefits of offering MOUD aren’t limited to inmates’ experiences while incarcerated. Proper use of ...

Weber Human Services and the Weber County Sheriff’s Office for a grant-funded medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, program at the jail. Medication-assisted treatment is described as an ...

The lack of a continuous quality improvement program means that ‘critical errors go unaddressed’ in the jail system, one doctor says.

Shanya, also in North Carolina, withdrew from opioids while pregnant in jail without access to medication-assisted treatment as well. “It was not a good living situation,” Shanya, who is also ...