Aligning public health and public safety: Probation as a touchpoint to identify and link patients with opioid use disorder to opioid agonist treatment.
Daniel J BrombergSamy J Galvez de LeonTaylor LitzLyu AzbelAmanda R LibermanMaxim PolonskySergii DvoriakNataliia SaichukFaye TaxmanFrederick L AlticePublished in: PLOS global public health (2023)
The prevalence of OUD (and HIV) is high among people in probation in Ukraine. SBIRT can identify a large number of people eligible for OAT, many of whom were willing to initiate and remain on OAT. Integrating SBIRT into probation can potentially assist with OAT scale-up and help address HIV prevention efforts.