Development of a community-based buprenorphine treatment intervention

描述（由申请人提供）：随着阿片类药物成瘾率的上升，阿片类药物成瘾治疗的不足越来越成问题。丁丙诺啡治疗可以通过减少阿片类药物的使用和艾滋病毒风险行为来解决这一问题。感染和传播艾滋病毒的高风险边缘人群，如注射吸毒者，获得丁丙诺啡治疗的机会有限。由于监管很少，丁丙诺啡治疗可纳入注射吸毒者聚集的社区环境。强调以社区为基础的丁丙诺啡治疗的战略具有很大的潜力，可以覆盖注射吸毒者等边缘化人群。在我们之前的工作中，我们制定了以社区为基础的策略来改善艾滋病毒治疗的可及性，并制定了丁丙诺啡诱导策略来克服诱导挑战，我们认为，在社区环境中制定丁丙诺啡治疗干预措施对于改善IDUs的可及性和成功的阿片类药物成瘾治疗至关重要。因此，我们建议在非医疗社区环境中开发丁丙诺啡治疗干预措施，以改善阿片类药物成瘾治疗的可及性，改善健康结果，并减少注射吸毒者的高风险行为。我们将与两个社区组织（cbo）合作，开发、测试基于社区的丁丙诺啡治疗（CBBT）干预措施的可行性，并对其进行初步研究。我们预计CBBT干预将包括：丁丙诺啡教育、方便就医、丁丙诺啡诱导期间的支持和丁丙诺啡维持期间的支持。此外，我们预计CBBT干预将针对cbo注射器交换计划的客户，由cbo的外展工作人员实施，并在cbo的设置中发生。具体目标是：1)建立基于社区的丁丙诺啡治疗干预。我们将对两家CBBT的员工和客户进行焦点小组和开放式个人访谈，以指导CBBT干预组件、材料和流程的开发。2)检验实施社区丁丙诺啡治疗干预的可行性。我们将通过以下方式检验可行性：1)监测外展工作者遵守干预手册的能力；2)测量外展工作者和客户满意度；3)跟踪参与CBBT干预的客户。3)考察社区丁丙诺啡治疗干预的治疗结果（阿片类药物使用、HIV危险行为、治疗保留）。我们将比较接受CBBT干预的客户与未接受CBBT干预的客户在开始丁丙诺啡治疗前和30天后阿片类药物使用和HIV风险行为的变化。我们还将比较30天的治疗保留率。如果CBBT可行并能改善治疗结果，它可能对阿片类药物和艾滋病毒流行产生积极影响。这个项目的试点数据将指导我们的R01拨款申请，对我们的CBBT干预的有效性进行大规模严格的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With rising rates of opioid addiction, inadequate opioid addiction treatment is increasingly problematic. Buprenorphine treatment can address this problem by reducing opioid use and HIV risk behaviors. Marginalized populations at high risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV, like injection drug users (IDUs), have limited access to buprenorphine treatment. Because of minimal regulations, buprenorphine treatment can be integrated into community-based settings where IDUs congregate. There is great potential for strategies that emphasize community-based buprenorphine treatment to reach marginalized populations, like IDUs. Building on our previous work in which we developed community-based strategies to improve access to HIV treatment and developed a buprenorphine induction strategy to overcome induction challenges, we believe that developing a buprenorphine treatment intervention in community-based settings is critical to improving accessible and successful opioid addiction treatment for IDUs. Thus, we propose to develop a buprenorphine treatment intervention in non-medical community-based settings to improve access to opioid addiction treatment, improve health outcomes, and reduce high-risk behaviors among IDUs. We will collaborate with two community-based organizations (CBOs) to develop, test the feasibility of, and preliminarily examine a community-based buprenorphine treatment (CBBT) intervention. We anticipate that the CBBT intervention will consist of: buprenorphine education, facilitated access to physicians, support during buprenorphine induction, and support during buprenorphine maintenance. Additionally, we anticipate that the CBBT intervention will target clients of the CBOs' syringe exchange programs, be implemented by CBOs' outreach workers, and occur in the CBOs' settings. The specific aims are: 1) To develop a community-based buprenorphine treatment intervention. We will conduct focus groups and open-ended individual interviews with two CBOs' staff and clients to guide development of CBBT intervention components, materials, and processes. 2) To test the feasibility of implementing a community-based buprenorphine treatment intervention. We will examine feasibility by: 1) monitoring outreach workers' ability to adhere to the intervention manual; 2) measuring outreach worker and client satisfaction, and 3) tracking clients who engage in the CBBT intervention. 3) To examine treatment outcomes (opioid use, HIV risk behaviors, treatment retention) of a community-based buprenorphine treatment intervention. We will compare change in opioid use and HIV risk behaviors before and 30 days after initiating buprenorphine treatment in clients who received the CBBT intervention with clients who did not. We will also compare 30-day treatment retention. If CBBT is feasible and can improve treatment outcomes, it could positively impact the opioid and HIV epidemics. Pilot data from this project will guide our R01 grant application, to conduct a large-scale rigorous study of the effectiveness of our CBBT intervention. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: With increasing rates of opioid addiction, our innovative project will develop, test the feasibility of, and preliminarily examine treatment outcomes of a community-based buprenorphine treatment intervention. Ultimately, this intervention has the potential to improve access to opioid addiction treatment with buprenorphine and improve buprenorphine treatment outcomes (reduce opioid use, reduce HIV risk behaviors, and improve retention in buprenorphine treatment). This study's findings will be used to guide a large-scale study of our community-based buprenorphine treatment intervention.