Rural-Urban Variation in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Access among Commercially Insured Children and Adolescents
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Description
Details a study on the geographic factors that affect access to treatment for youth and adolescents, aged 0-17, with an opioid use disorder (OUD) and covered by commercial insurance in 2019. Discusses the effects of rurality, provider type, travel burden, and residing in a county without a clinician with a DEA waiver, among other measures.
Author(s)
C. Holly A. Andrilla, Lisa A. Garberson, Sara C. Woolcock, Janessa M. Graves
Date
04/2026
Organization
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Access
· Children and youth
· Health disparities
· Health insurance
· Illicit drug use
· Prescription drug misuse
· Rural-urban differences
· Statistics and data