Communities with greater social vulnerability lack geographic access to opioid medication

Communities with greater social vulnerability did not have greater geographic access to medication for opioid use disorder, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
“It is important to examine how a community’s ability to respond to disasters and infectious disease outbreaks is associated with current access to [medication for opioid use disorder] especially given the already uneven access to the medications,” Paul J. Joudrey, MD, MPH, of the department of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.
Joudrey and colleagues sought to examine

Communities with greater social vulnerability did not have greater geographic access to medication for opioid use disorder, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
“It is important to examine how a community’s ability to respond to disasters and infectious disease outbreaks is associated with current access to [medication for opioid use disorder] especially given the already uneven access to the medications,” Paul J. Joudrey, MD, MPH, of the department of internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.
Joudrey and colleagues sought to examine