Treating Opioid Addiction in Jails Improves Treatment Engagement, Reduces Overdose Deaths and Reincarceration

• By: | The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• September 16th, 2025
• incarceration treatment, jail-based healthcare, medications for opioid use, opioid use disorder, overdose prevention, post-release outcomes, public health crisis
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NIH-funded study demonstrates life-saving potential of providing medications for opioid use disorder in carceral settings.  A study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finds that individuals who received medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) while incarcerated were...

Rising to the COVID-19 Challenge

• By: Peter Provet, PhD Odyssey House
• October 1st, 2020
• addiction, behavioral health, COVID-19, fall 2020 issue, opioid epidemic, public health crisis, supportive housing
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When Governor Cuomo ordered the closure of non-essential businesses across New York State in response to rising coronavirus infection rates, Odyssey House stayed open. Our essential residential treatment centers, outpatient services, supportive housing apartments, and primary health clinics in...