{"id":10278,"date":"2021-06-08T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10278"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:24:25","slug":"changes-in-methadone-program-practices-and-fatal-methadone-overdose-rates-in-connecticut-during-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/08\/changes-in-methadone-program-practices-and-fatal-methadone-overdose-rates-in-connecticut-during-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Methadone Program Practices and Fatal Methadone Overdose Rates in Connecticut during COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A statewide survey of opioid treatment programs (OPTs) in Connecticut found no increases in methadone-involved fatalities relative to other opioid-involved fatalities, despite dramatic changes in practices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of multiple programmatic changes, the percentage of patients receiving 28-day take-home doses for methadone treatment increased from 0.1% to 17% from July to August 2020, 14-day take-home doses increased from 14% to 27%, and the percent receiving one or no take-home doses decreased from 38% to 10%.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brothers et al.\u00a0(Apr 28, 2021). Changes in Methadone Program Practices and Fatal Methadone Overdose Rates in Connecticut during COVID-19. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jsat.2021.108449\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jsat.2021.108449<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statewide survey of opioid treatment programs (OPTs) in Connecticut found no increases in methadone-involved fatalities relative to other opioid-involved fatalities, despite dramatic changes in practices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of multiple programmatic changes, the percentage of patients receiving 28-day take-home doses for methadone treatment increased from 0.1% to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/08\/changes-in-methadone-program-practices-and-fatal-methadone-overdose-rates-in-connecticut-during-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[240],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-10278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health-practice","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10279,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10278\/revisions\/10279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10278"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}