A Student Walks into Class … Vignettes to Identify Substance Use Disorder Models of Illness among College Students.

Introduction: Illness models, including illness recognition, perceived severity, and perceived nature can affect treatment-seeking behaviors. Vignettes are a leading approach to examine models of illness but are understudied for substance use disorders (SUDs). We created vignettes for multiple common DSM-5 SUDs and assessed SUD illness models among college students.

A qualitative investigation of addiction counselors' perceptions and experiences implementing an open-access model for treating opioid use disorder.

Objective: To examine addiction counselors' perceptions and experiences of implementing an open-access model for methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), in which the program rapidly enrolled prospective patients, irrespective of ability to pay, and provided real-time access to multiple voluntary treatment options. Between 2006, when the treatment program initially implemented this model, and 2020, the census of clients receiving methadone maintenance at the study site grew from 1431 to 4500.

Methods: Participants were 31 addiction counselors employed at a treatment organization that implemented an open-access model to scale up MMT.

Correlates of Homelessness Among Patients in Methadone Maintenance Treatment.

Background: Although homelessness and opioid use disorder (OUD) are important public health issues, few studies have examined their cooccurrence.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlates of homelessness among patients enrolled in low-barrier-to-treatment-access methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs for OUD.

Methods: Demographic, diagnosis-related, and treatment-related correlates were assessed by self-report for 164 patients in MMT.