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

> **NIH NIH U01** · BROWN UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $99,999

## Abstract

Project Summary
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. There are no two greater examples
representing the pertinence of the impact of law on public health than the confluence of the COVID-19
pandemic and the opioid epidemic in the United States. COVID-19 exacerbated many existing weaknesses in
opioid treatment models, especially those serving our most vulnerable populations like the criminal justice-
involved population. Following the lead of the Brown University research hub’s project seeking to improve the
continuum of evidence-based medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) care for justice involved individuals,
researchers at the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at the Temple University Beasley School
of Law used legal epidemiology and policy surveillance measures, to scientific legal data on COVID-19 laws
and policies impacting the individuals with opioid use disorder. Alongside outcome data captured by the Brown
University research hub and other JCOIN researchers, the CPHLR legal data is intended to be used to help
evaluate the impact of law on MOUD treatment among justice-involved individuals during COVID-19. While this
legal data is published and freely available for download for researchers to evaluate the impact of these
evolving legal measures on health outcomes over time, more work needs to be done to ensure that this crucial
legal data is FAIR – findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
By relying on this legal data and the research team’s collective expertise in cloud-based platform technology,
this project will load-test an innovative Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network architecture and move the existing legal
datasets to a more organized centralized data index. This will in turn bring new and innovative functionalities to
drastically reduce hosting costs, improve call times for data, and supply easier data harmonization tools for
researchers all while aligning with the FAIR principles.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10628540
- **Project number:** 3U01DA050442-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** BROWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $99,999
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2022-08-01 → 2023-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10628540

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10628540, Using Implementation Interventions and Peer Recovery Support to Improve Opioid Treatment Outcomes in Community Supervision (3U01DA050442-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10628540. Licensed CC0.

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