The MAT Barriers

Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD);has been referred to as the "gold standard" (see;Facing Addiction In America: The Surgeon General’s Spotlight On Opioids) for treatment. But that endorsement hasn’t been enough to drive the adoption of MAT. Health and human service (HHS) executives—at the policy and practice level—are trying to drive the use of medications in treatment—but the barriers are many.

Recent research,;Understanding MAT Access In The Context Of Unused MAT Capacity In The United States: When Increasing Rural MAT Capacity Is Not Enough, looked at . . .