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The opioid crisis continues to claim thousands of lives annually. Because evidence-based practices such as medications for opioid use disorder are underused, research is needed on methods to scale up use. To address this knowledge gap, the U.S. National Institutes of Health sponsored an intervention to support communities in coalition-building, data analysis, implementation of evidence-based practices, and communication campaigns.
Researchers randomized 67 communities in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio to the intervention group or a wait-list control. The intervention was delivered from January 2020 to June 2022. Intervention communities implemented a wide variety of evidence-based practice strategies involving overdose education…