# Using Implementation Interventions and Peer Recovery Support to Improve Opioid Treatment Outcomes in Community Supervision

> **NIH NIH U01** · BROWN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $184,738

## Abstract

Project Summary
COVID-19 threatens to exacerbate the ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States, but the
pandemic has also provided an opportunity to experiment with changes in how opioid treatment
services are delivered around the country. The current pandemic has resulted in a flurry of
unprecedented policy measures, and it is crucial to understand the impact that rapid changes in
law, regulation, and policy are having on individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), particularly
those involved with the criminal justice system.
Deploying law to support, rather than hinder access to treatment requires evidence of which
legal levers help and which hurt, and a clear mapping of the state of the law in every applicable
jurisdiction. Legal epidemiology – the scientific study and deployment of law as a factor in the
cause, distribution, and prevention of disease and injury in a population – provides an innovative
framework to understanding the positive, negative, and incidental effects of these policy
changes on population health.
The research team will use legal epidemiology and policy surveillance methods to collect and
systematically code laws, regulations, executive orders, Medicaid waivers, and other opioid-
related policies relevant to the criminal justice system during the COVID-19 pandemic. The legal
data will be published and freely available for download for all users, including JCOIN network
members, to evaluate the impact of these evolving legal measures on health outcomes over
time.
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10188053
- **Project number:** 3U01DA050442-02S1
- **Recipient organization:** BROWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $184,738
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-08-01 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10188053

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10188053, Using Implementation Interventions and Peer Recovery Support to Improve Opioid Treatment Outcomes in Community Supervision (3U01DA050442-02S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10188053. Licensed CC0.

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