5 results match your criteria: "and the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights[Affiliation]"

Methadone maintenance treatment among patients exposed to illicit fentanyl in Rhode Island: Safety, dose, retention, and relapse at 6 months.

Drug Alcohol Depend

November 2018

The Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, 55 Claverick Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA.

Introduction: Illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) is a potent synthetic opioid that has been contributing to overdose deaths in the United States. This study examined intake toxicology and six-month treatment outcomes for patients newly admitted to a single methadone maintenance treatment program (MMTP) in Rhode Island with a high prevalence of illicit fentanyl.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of patients admitted to a single MMTP between November 1, 2016 and August 31, 2017 followed for six months.

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Responding to hepatitis C through the criminal justice system.

N Engl J Med

May 2014

From the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Brown University (J.D.R.), and the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, Miriam Hospital (J.D.R., S.A.A.) - both in Providence, RI; the University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside (S.A.A.); and the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (B.A.W.).

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Medicaid policies and practices in US state prison systems.

Am J Public Health

March 2014

At the time of this study, David L. Rosen was with the Center for Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dora M. Dumont and Bradley W. Brockmann were with the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI. Andrew M. Cislo was with the Center for Public Health and Health Policy, University of Connecticut, East Hartford. Amy Traver was with the Human Biology Program, Brown University, Providence, RI. Josiah D. Rich was with the Division of Infectious Diseases, Brown University, and the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, Miriam Hospital.

Medicaid is an important source of health care coverage for prison-involved populations. From 2011 to 2012, we surveyed state prison system (SPS) policies affecting Medicaid enrollment during incarceration and upon release; 42 of 50 SPSs participated. Upon incarceration, Medicaid benefits were suspended in 9 (21.

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Medicine and the epidemic of incarceration in the United States.

N Engl J Med

June 2011

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, and the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, Providence, RI, USA.

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