title: Medication-assisted therapy for opioid-dependent incarcerated populations in New Mexico: statewide efforts to increase access.
abstract: An acute awareness of the profound social and medical costs associated with heroin and opiate addiction in New Mexico has led a group of advocates from public health, state and local governments, corrections, academia, and community activists to collaborate for the purpose of increasing access to medication-assisted therapy (MAT) with buprenorphine and methadone in New Mexico. This paper describes these collaborations, with a focus on the evolution of harm reduction approaches to substance abuse disorders and successful efforts to make MAT available to incarcerated persons.
authors.affiliation: New Mexico Department of Health. trigabov@aol.com
authors.forename: Bruce G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Trigg
authors.forename: Samuel L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Dickman
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002047:Buprenorphine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D040261:Harm Reduction; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008691:Methadone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009516:New Mexico; D058850:Opiate Substitution Treatment; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011329:Prisoners
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid; D002047:Buprenorphine; D008691:Methadone