Buprenorphine Group Medical Visits in Primary Care
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2019-05-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The primary goal of this research is to improve the effectiveness of buprenorphine
maintenance treatment (BMT) within primary care.
Investigators propose that providing BMT as part of a group medical visit (instead of an
individual visit) will improve treatment outcomes for patients with persistent opioid abuse,
because members become accountable to the group, are exposed to beneficial habits of others
(i.e. positive deviance), and can receive efficacious behavioral interventions concomitantly
with medical management