Please join Dr. Tyler Winkelman, the Minnesota Sheriff’s Association (MSA), and the Minnesota Office of Addiction and Recovery (OAR) for a panel discussion on increasing access to medicines for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in jails. Over the last year, MMA and MSA have co-chaired a workgroup that brought together people who are on the ground, practitioners, people working in the jails, sheriffs, local corrections, health care providers, and others, to identify current barriers to providing MOUD, possible solutions, and identifying connections that can be made to support these efforts.
The panel will share results from the workgroup, including the challenges of delivering appropriate care in correctional settings, the new challenges that present once an individual has left the correctional setting, and the pivotal role that primary care physicians can play in this space.