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💊 Limited access to medications for opioid use disorder in community-based settings could be an issue of scale, contend a group of researchers in JAMA Network Open. 📈 Indeed, in the 20 states with the highest occurrence of substance use disorder (SUD), particularly opioid use disorder, only about a third of the community outpatient mental health facilities even offer MOUD. Half of certified community behavioral health clinics (CCBHCs), a specified type of outpatient mental health facility required to treat co-occurring mental health and SUD cases, offer MOUD. These findings could suggest issues scaling MOUD access, with key institutional barriers limiting certain facilities that treat SUD from offering the medications that could aid in therapy. #OpioidCrisis #MedicationAssistedTreatment #OpioidUseDisorder #HealthCrisis #SaveLives #PublicHealth #HealthAccess #AddictionRecovery #OpioidEpidemic #MentalHealthMatters #HealthEquity

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