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Session Submission Type: Roundtable
The national opioid crisis represents a pressing public health challenge. The urgency of the issue has spurred the need for innovative and effective programming, while at the same time its complicated nature presents unique challenges for designing research to produce actionable and timely evidence. The proposed roundtable will feature officials from Pierce County Human Services (PCHS) in Washington State and academic researchers, who will discuss their experiences in building and maintaining successful research partnerships to support transformative, data-driven public health policy solutions to opioid use disorder.
The first project, in partnership with Assistant Professor Ariel Zucker, focuses on evaluating PCHS’s mobile Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) program. MOUD programs provide counseling and medications to help people discontinue substance misuse safely, and this evaluation aims to assess how mobile ban units delivering MOUD services impact substance use and community access to treatment in parts of Pierce County that are underserved by traditional, stationary services.
The second project, in partnership with Professor Mireille Jacobson, aims to assess the impact of extending detox stays for individuals undergoing fentanyl detoxification. Although direct service providers believe that extending the detox period could significantly benefit individuals seeking treatment, currently the authorized length of stay is a five-day stay, a duration that has not been reevaluated in recent years. The evaluation seeks to determine whether an extended stay from five days to ten days improves treatment outcomes and hospital utilization and potentially inform current best practice in treatment.