Stepping Stones proposes to implement a recovery housing model customized for the 278,000 persons enrolled in Medication Assisted Treatment programs in the United States. Stepping Stones will increase MAT participation and retention, recovery self-efficacy, employment, and income. Phase 1 will demonstrate feasibility using a sample of females with opioid use disorders who are enrolled in MAT.
Project Terms: Abstinence; Achievement; Adherence; Aftercare; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; base; Benchmarking; Brain Diseases; Buprenorphine; burden of illness; Case Management; Chronic; Cities; Communicable Diseases; Continuity of Patient Care; cost; cost effective; Coupled; Custom; Data; design; disability; Drug Prescriptions; effective intervention; effective therapy; Effectiveness; Employment; Enrollment; Epidemic; evidence base; Evidence based treatment; experience; Female; Goals; Halfway Houses; Heroin; Home environment; Housing; housing instability; Hydrocodone; Income; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Maintenance; Measures; medication-assisted treatment; men; Methadone; Methodology; Modality; Modeling; Naltrexone; non-compliance; Opiate Addiction; Opioid; opioid abuse; opioid injection; opioid overdose; opioid use; opioid use disorder; Outcome; Oxycodone; Participant; peer coaching; Persons; Phase; Population; programs; Recovery; Recurrence; Research; Research Peer Review; Sampling; Self Efficacy; Services; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; sobriety; Social Functioning; stem; success; Supported Employment; Surveys; Testing; Therapeutic; treatment adherence; Treatment outcome; treatment program; Unemployment; United States; Woman;