This is a website that tracks the number of state prisons and county jails that provide medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) across the United States. It also includes implementation resources and literature that supports MOUD in criminal justice settings. 

This report, from the National Sheriff's Association and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, gives an overview with deeper exploration of general tenets and best practices associated with developing, implementing, and sustaining a jail-based treatment program using medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).

Programs in action are highlighted, providing a window into several real-world, jail-based programs using MOUD, including outcomes and lessons learned. Resources and tools are also included in this document.

This academic paper describes a qualitative study analyzing the barriers and facilitators to implementing MOUD treatment in a sample of New Jersey jails. The investigators interviewed and surveyed jail staff and found that MOUD delivery practices varied on a number of factors. This included jails' limited resources and duration of jail stays. However, facilitators and solutions to MOUD delivery issues were also identified. 

This compendium of best practice recommendations and resources from the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services was developed to provide guidance and support to initiate and expand medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for patient populations in a variety of service settings as requested by health care and behavioral health professionals.

Within this document, there are also sections on best practices on communicating with patients and reducing stigma. 

This is a toolkit from the Kraft Center for Community Health that is based on the CareZONE model and helps communities replicate mobile addiction services. Identifying ideal locations to provide services, licensures, finances, outreach and engagement, and standard operation procedures are discussed in detail. 

This report from the Bureau of Justice Assistance outlines 5 pathways that first responders and law enforcement can utilize though deflection and diversion of patients with opioid use disorder to treatment services. They are an alternative to traditional approaches taken by law enforcement and first responders. Successful initiatives are highlighted. 

This is a report from Priority Criminal Justice Needs Initiative that summarizes the high-priority needs for law enforcement to address the opioid crisis, identified through a workshop of stakeholders.

This is a report from the SAFE Project and the Police, Treatment, and Community Collaborative that highlights law enforcement diversion models to address the opioid crisis, such as self-referrals to treatment with police departments as entry points, active outreach, overdose education and naloxone distribution, and law enforcement-initiated treatment engagement. Several program models are discussed within this document.

This report details the lived experiences of individuals with an Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in order to give a better understanding of the barriers to treatment that exist within Massachusetts. A few of the barriers discussed in the report include racially inequitable access to treatment, lack of transitional support, absence of OUD treatment in correctional facilities, and stigma. The authors make recommendations on policy pathways that can minimize these barriers. 

This is a website that provides summary documents on how pharmacists are responding to the opioid crisis, including preventing opioid misuse, increasing access to medications of opioid use disorder, and providing harm reduction services. These documents describe success stories as well as clinical and systemic barriers faced by pharmacists. 

This is a report from the Urban Institute that provides an overview of the role Maine's Medicaid program is playing and could play in addressing Maine’s opioid crisis and substance use disorders (SUDs) more broadly, in the context of the recent expansion of Medicaid.

This analysis consisted of an expedited review of available public information and data, key informant interviews, and evaluating promising Medicaid initiatives implemented elsewhere to inform Maine’s policy debate over effective strategies to address the opioid crisis and SUDs. Ten state policy options are recommended within this document. 

This report displays how geography and health insurance coverage rather than medical need, determine a patient's access to opioid treatment programs (OTP). These OTPs are the only healthcare facilities that provide all three forms of medication for opioid use disorder, however the report highlights the major disparities in access to these based on state.