BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Substance Use Disorders and Behavioral Addictions
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1533082
This article is part of the Research TopicInnovations in Recovery Science: Pathways, Policies, and Platforms that Promote Thriving After AddictionView all 16 articles
A Roadmap for Maximizing the Use and Effectiveness of Recovery Housing for Individuals Prescribed Medications for Opiate Use Disorders
Provisionally accepted
Amy A Mericle1*
Carmen L Masson2Sarah E Zemore1Meenakshi S Subbaraman3Dustin Khebzou1Diane Schmidt1
Kwinoja Kapiteni1
Leonard A Jason4- 1Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, United States
- 2University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
- 3Public Health Institute, Oakland, California, United States
- 4DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Introduction: Safe and stable housing is increasingly recognized as critical to recovery from alcohol and drug use disorders, but research on the outcomes of residents in recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD), particularly those prescribed medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), is limited. Methods: This article presents results from an informal survey (N=15) and discussion with experts in the recovery housing and OUD treatment fields serving as Advisory Board members on the Infrastructure for Studying Treatment and Addiction Recovery Residences (I-STARR) project regarding priorities for research and training on recovery housing for individuals prescribed MOUD. Drawing on the results, we provide a roadmap to establish an evidence base on recovery housing for those prescribed MOUD. Results: Three of the highest-ranked research topics identified were: (1) Assessment of recovery housing outcomes of people prescribed MOUD and factors that may influence outcomes; (2) Examination of factors associated with MOUD adherence among recovery housing residents; and (3) Strategies to increase linkage between MOUD prescribers/treatment providers and recovery residence operators. Additional topics emerged during discussion, most prominently the examination of barriers to, and facilitators of, accessing recovery housing among people prescribed MOUD. The highest-rated training topic for researchers and recovery housing operators was challenges faced by recovery housing operators. Conclusions: Research is urgently needed to establish an evidence base on recovery housing for those prescribed MOUD, and both researchers and operators in the field would benefit from training to ensure that potential challenges to moving research forward on this topic are addressed.
Keywords: Addiction, Recovery, Opioid use disorder, Medications for opioid use disorder, recovery housing, recovery residences
Received: 23 Nov 2024; Accepted: 21 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Mericle, Masson, Zemore, Subbaraman, Khebzou, Schmidt, Kapiteni and Jason. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Amy A Mericle, Alcohol Research Group, Emeryville, United States
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