Skip to main content
56th ASAM Annual Conference Main banner
Final Program


Preview Program
Back

Focus Session

Concurrent Sessions #2

It's jail, Doc, we don’t do Buprenorphine: MOUD advocacy in Indiana’s Jails

Friday, April 25, 2025
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM  
The scientific evidence and legal grounding for medications for opioid use disorder in jails is well established. Unfortunately, despite medical, scientific and legal support for MOUD, access to it remains extremely limited in most jails in Indiana. This treatment gap provides a huge opportunity for providers, legal advocates and communality organizations to come together and advocate for individual patients to have better access but also to change the systems that continue to limit access in jail.

Learning Objectives:

Learners will be able to:
  • Participants will be able to summarize the benefits of providing Medications for Opioid Use Disorder to patients with opioid use disorder in carceral settings
  • Participants will be able to identify legal principles and recent case law relevant to patients with opioid use disorder at risk for incarceration
  • Participants will be able identify advocacy strategies to improve access to medications for opioid use disorder both on an individual patient level as well as at a systems level.
Disclosure(s):
Krista M. Brucker, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Amelia Caramadre, Esq, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose
Brooke Marshall, LCSW,LCAC: No financial relationships to disclose
Nicholas Catapano, APRN: No financial relationships to disclose