By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Increasing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and adding wrap-around services can improve the care of opioid use disorder (OUD) and potentially lower the rate of injection drug use–associated infections (IDU-AIs), according to Sarah R. Blevins, PharmD, the HIV clinical pharmacist at the University of Kentucky HealthCare (UKHC), in Lexington.
Kentucky ranks in the top five states for opioid overdose deaths, and overdoses are a leading cause of injury-related deaths in