Making Take Home Methadone a Reality

Saturday, April 26, 2025

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Presenter(s)

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Angela Kerins, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist
University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
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JP Murray, MD, MA

Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
A. Justine Landi, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
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Geoff Pucci, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist Specialist
University of Chicago Medicine
Chicago, Illinois

Navigating the path to take home methadone in the era of updated and evolving policies and regulations. Providing patients with methadone at hospital discharge. Increasing opportunity to linkage of care from initiation of methadone treatment in an acute care to outpatient treatment program.

Learning Objectives:

Learners will be able to:

Formulate a list of necessary partnerships with key stakeholders in the operationalization of dispensing three-day take home methadone.
Identify at least three potential barriers to the operationalization of three-day take home methadone.
Develop a process map for the operationalization of three-day take home methadone for patients being discharged from the hospital.

Disclosure(s):

Angela Kerins, PharmD: No financial relationships to disclose

JP Murray, MD, MA: No financial relationships to disclose

Andrea J. Landi, MD: No financial relationships to disclose