Previous research has found that over 80 percent of people with opioid use disorder (OUD) do not receive evidence-based lifesaving medications.
NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine Jul 29 2024 Previous research has found that over 80 percent of people with opioid use disorder do not receive evidence-based lifesaving medications. While access to these medications is better in New York City than elsewhere in the United States, numerous structural and social barriers impede access to treatment, and more than 100,000 people in the U.S. continue to die from drug overdoses each year.
Addiction consult programs like CATCH have tremendous potential to reduce the negative consequences of untreated substance use disorder. We have highly effective medications for treating opioid use disorder and preventing overdose, but far too few patients are receiving them. It is our hope that programs like CATCH will be replicated, reimbursed, and rolled out at hospitals across the country, to transform hospital care for patients with substance use disorder.
CATCH consult teams consisted of a medical clinician, social worker or addiction counselor, and peer counselor. The investigators assessed whether patients who were not already in treatment prior to hospitalization received medication for OUD in the first 14 days post-hospital discharge, as well as continuation with treatment 30 days after initiation.
The six H + H hospitals participating in the study have continued offering CATCH even after the study ended.
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