Medication Assisted Treatment & Supporting Incarceration Facilities With Innovative Approaches

April 30, 2020

This presentation examined strategies of treating offenders with opioid use disorder by utilizing medication assisted Tteatment (MAT) in jails and prisons. It has been demonstrated that implementing and supporting MAT in correctional facilities offers the facility protection from emerging legal issues, increases staff safety, improves offender outcomes, and offsets overall county and state costs. 

This presentation’s learning objectives include:

• An introduction to medication assisted treatment (MAT) and national examples of MAT implementation in correctional programming
• A working knowledge of medication assisted treatment and how other correctional programs have implemented the treatment modality into their facility. Topics covered include initial trainings for staff, transportation needs, inductions of the medication, medication delivery, limitations around federal grant funds being used, along with examples of policies and procedures.
• Innovative approaches to supporting correctional facilities with MAT.
• An evaluation of strategies in utilizing MAT as a tool to support offenders and criminal justice programs to improve outcomes. These strategies include 24 hour support, medication storage, strategies around facilities with minimal resources.
• Collective impact and improving outcomes.
• An understanding around how to implement Collective Impact, an integration model encouraging teams from different disciplines to provide wrap around services, a focus on reentry supports, coordinating warm hand offs to community providers, peer support, moral recognition therapy, along with demonstrated outcomes.