NIH: More Than Half of U.S. Jails Don’t Have Access to Medication for OUD

New research has found over half of more than 1,000 surveyed U.S. jails did not offer medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) to its inmates (JAMA Netw Open 2024;7[9]:e2434704).
A total of 43.8% of 1,028 jails surveyed across the United States offered any form of medication for OUD, and only 12.8% made these available to anyone with the disorder.  
For those jails that offered these medications, buprenorphine was the most commonly provided—available in 69.9% of facilities that