Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) has been shown to reduce overdose deaths, improve treatment retention, enhance employment outcomes, and support better birth outcomes. While access to MAT is expanding in correctional facilities, significant barriers remain. This presentation will discuss challenges to MAT expansion and how normalization strategies can improve access and patient outcomes.

• Summarize the barriers and challenges that limit MAT services in correctional facilities
• Discuss how MAT normalization can increase access to MAT and improve patient outcomes
• Explain a stepwise approach to implementing a MAT normalization program

Level: Intermediate