Reproductive-Age Women's Experience of Accessing Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: "We Don't Do That Here".

Phillippi JC, Schulte R, Bonnet K, Schlundt DD, Cooper WO, Martin PR, Kozhimannil KB, Patrick SW. Reproductive-Age Women's Experience of Accessing Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: "We Don't Do That Here". Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. 2021 May 17. PMID: 34090780 [PubMed]

Abstract

For reproductive-age women, medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) decrease risk of overdose death and improve outcomes but are underutilized. Our objective was to provide a qualitative description of reproductive-age women's experiences of seeking an appointment for medications for OUD.