Barriers to Community Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders among Rural Veterans
By: Matthew R. Filteau, Brandn Green and Kristal Jones
References
- Andrilla, H., Coulthard, C., & Larson, E. (2017).
Changes in the supply of physicians with a DEA DATA waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (Data Brief #162) . WAMI Rural Health Research Center. - Barry, D. T., Bernard, M. J., Beitel, M., Moore, B. A., Kerns, R. D., & Schottenfeld, R. S. (2008). Counselors’ experiences treating methadone-maintained patients with chronic pain: A needs assessment study. Journal of Addiction Medicine, 2(2), 108–111. DOI: 10.1097/ADM.0b013e31815ec240
- Blanco, C., Ali, M. M., Beswick, A., Drexler, K., Hoffman, C., Jones, C. M., Wiley, T. R. A., & Coukell, A. (2020). The American opioid epidemic in special populations: Five examples. NAM Perspectives. DOI: 10.31478/202010b
- Brunet, N., Moore, D. T., Lendvai Wischik, D., Mattocks, K. M., & Rosen, M. I. (2020). Increasing buprenorphine access for veterans with opioid use disorder in rural clinics using telemedicine. Substance Abuse, 1–8. DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2020.1728466
- Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis. SAGE.
- Creswell, J. W. (2007). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches (2nd ed.). SAGE.
- Filteau, M. R., Kim, F. L., & Green, B. (2021). It’s more than just a job to them: A qualitative examination of patient and provider perspectives on medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. Community Mental Health Journal. DOI: 10.1007/s10597-021-00824-7
- Finlay, A. K., Harris, A. H., Rosenthal, J., Blue-Howells, J., Clark, S., McGuire, J., Timko, C., Frayne, S. M., Smelson, D., Oliva, E., & Binswanger, I. (2016). Receipt of pharmacotherapy for opioid use disorder by justice-involved US Veterans Health Administration patients. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 160, 222–226. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.01.013
- Glaser, B. (1978). Theoretical sensitivity: Advances in the methodology of grounded theory. The Sociology Press.
- Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Aldine Publishing. DOI: 10.1097/00006199-196807000-00014
- Gordon, A. J., Drexler, K., Hawkins, E. J., Burden, J., Codell, N. K., Mhatre-Owens, A., Dungan, M. T., & Hagedorn, H. (2020). Stepped Care for Opioid Use Disorder Train the Trainer (SCOUTT) initiative: Expanding access to medication treatment for opioid use disorder within Veterans Health Administration facilities. Substance Abuse, 41(3), 275–282. DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2020.1787299
- Gordon, A. J., Kavanagh, G., Krumm, M., Ramgopal, R., Paidisetty, S., Aghevli, M., Goodman, F., Trafton, J., & Liberto, J. (2011). Facilitators and barriers in implementing buprenorphine in the Veterans Health Administration. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors: Journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, 25(2), 215–224. DOI: 10.1037/a0022776
- Green, B., & Filteau, M. R. (2019). State Targeted Response (STR) to the Opioid Crisis Grant final evaluation. Montana Addictive and Mental Disorders Division. DOI: 10.36855/STR2019
- Holder, K. A. (2017). Veterans in rural America: 2011–2015, American Community Survey Reports, ACS-36. US Census Bureau.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2017/acs/acs-36.pdf - Jones, C. A., Parker, T. S., Ahearn, M., Mishra, A., & Variyam, J. (2009). Health status and health care access of farm and rural populations (Economic Information Bulletin No. 57). Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/44424/9371_eib57_1_.pdf - McCance-Katz, E. F. (2018).
2018 national survey on drug use and health: Veterans [PowerPoint slides] . SAMHSA.https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/reports/rpt23251/6_Veteran_2020_01_14.pdf - McCormick, W. H., Currier, J. M., Isaak, S. L., Sims, B. M., Slagel, B. A., Carroll, T. D., Hammer, K., & Albright, D. L. (2019). Military culture and post-military transitioning among veterans: A qualitative analysis. Journal of Veterans Studies, 4(2), 287–298. DOI: 10.21061/jvs.v4i2.121
- Najavits, L. M, Norman, S. B., Kivlahan, D., & Kosten, T. R. (2010). Improving PTSD/substance abuse treatment in the VA: A survey of providers. The American Journal on Addictions, 19(3), 257–63. DOI: 10.1111/j.1521-0391.2010.00039.x
- National Judicial Opioid Task Force. (2019). Promising strategies in providing opioid use disorder treatment to rural, frontier and other underserved communities. National Center for State Courts.
https://www.ncsc.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/17614/oud-txt-in-rural-areas-final.pdf - Oliva, E. M., Harris, A. H., Trafton, J. A., & Gordon, A. J. (2012). Receipt of opioid agonist treatment in the Veterans Health Administration: Facility and patient factors. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 122(3), d 241–246. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.10.004
- Oliva, E. M., Maisel, N. C., Gordon, A. J., & Harris, A. H. (2011). Barriers to use of pharmacotherapy for addiction disorders and how to overcome them. Current Psychiatry Reports, 13(5), 374–381. DOI: 10.1007/s11920-011-0222-2
- Oliva, E. M., Trafton, J. A., Harris, A. H., & Gordon, A. J. (2013). Trends in opioid agonist therapy in the Veterans Health Administration: Is supply keeping up with demand? The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 39(2), 103–7. DOI: 10.3109/00952990.2012.741167
- Post, E. P., Metzger, M., Dumas, P., & Lehmann, L. (2010). Integrating mental health into primary care within the Veterans Health Administration. Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family Healthcare, 28(2), 83–90. DOI: 10.1037/a0020130
- Rosenblatt, R. A., Andrilla, C. H. A., Catlin, M., & Larson, E. H. (2015). Geographic and specialty distribution of US physicians trained to treat opioid use disorder. Annals of Family Medicine, 13, 23–26. DOI: 10.1370/afm.1735
- Rubin, R. (2020). Rural veterans less likely to get medication for opioid use disorder. JAMA, 323(4), 300. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.21856
- Saldaña, J. (2009). The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Sage
- Sigmon, S. C. (2014). Access to treatment for opioid dependence in rural America: Challenges and future directions. JAMA Psychiatry, 71(4), 359–360. DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.4450
- Small, M. L. (2009). ‘How many cases do I need?’: On science and the logic of case selection in field-based research. Ethnography, 10(1), 5–38. DOI: 10.1177/1466138108099586
- Trafton, J. A., Greenberg, G., Harris, A. H., Tavakoli, S., Kearney, L., McCarthy, J., Blow, F., Hoff, R., & Schohn, M. (2013). VHA mental health information system: Applying health information technology to monitor and facilitate implementation of VHA uniform mental health services handbook requirements. Medical Care, 51(3 Suppl. 1), S29–S36. DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31827da836
- Turvey, C. L., Lund, B. C., Jones, D., & Arndt, S. (2020). Community treatment for opioid use disorders in urban and rural veterans. The Journal of Rural Health: Official Journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association, 36(2), 167–176. DOI: 10.1111/jrh.12406
- US Census Bureau. (2019). Montana Vet Statistics. Retrieved October 4, 2021, from
https://www2.census.gov/library/visualizations/2015/comm/vets/mt-vets.pdf - US Department of Veterans Affairs. (2014). State Summaries: Montana. Retrieved October 4, 2021 from
https://www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/SpecialReports/State_Summaries_Montana.pdf - US Government Accountability Office. (2019). VA health care: actions needed to improve oversight of community-based outpatient clinics.
https://www.gao.gov//assets/700/691221.pdf - VA MISSION Act of 2018. s. 2372 — 115th Congress: VA MISSION Act of 2018.
- Valenstein-Mah, H., Hagedorn, H., Kay, C. L., Christopher, M. L., & Gordon, A. J. (2018). Underutilization of the current clinical capacity to provide buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorders within the Veterans Health Administration. Substance Abuse, 39(3), 286–288. DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2018.1509251
- Veterans Health Administration. (2008). Uniform mental health services in VA medical center and clinics (Handbook VHA 1160.01). Office of Mental Health Services.
- Wakeman, S. E., & Barnett, M. L. (2018). Primary care and the opioid-overdose crisis–Buprenorphine myths and realities. The New England Journal of Medicine, 379(1), 1–4. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1802741
- Westphal, R. J., & Convoy, S. P. (2015). Military culture implications for mental health and nursing care. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 20(1), 4. DOI: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol20No01Man04
- Wyse, J. J., Gordon, A. J., Dobscha, S. K., Morasco, B. J., Tiffany, E., Drexler, K., Sandbrink, F., & Lovejoy, T. I. (2018). Medications for opioid use disorder in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system: Historical perspective, lessons learned, and next steps. Substance Abuse, 39(2), 139–144. DOI: 10.1080/08897077.2018.1452327
- Zubkoff, L., Shiner, B., & Watts, B. V. (2016). Staff perceptions of substance use disorder treatment in VA primary care–mental health integrated clinics. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 70, 44–49. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2016.07.011
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/jvs.v7i3.262 | Journal eISSN: 2470-4768
Language: English
Page range: 83 - 94
Submitted on: May 18, 2021
Accepted on: Jul 4, 2021
Published on: Nov 5, 2021
Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
© 2021 Matthew R. Filteau, Brandn Green, Kristal Jones, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.