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Workshop F

Opioid Abuse as a Public Health Crisis and Overdose as an Epidemic

F2 - Adapting and Scaling an Intervention for Families with a Parent in Methadone Treatment

Wednesday, May 22, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM PST
Location: Willshire Ballroom
CE: 1.5
Presentation Summary: Families with a parent receiving methadone treatment are at risk for opioid misuse/overdose, but are rarely the target of
interventions. Families Facing the Future (FFF) is an established family-based intervention shown to effectively reduce illicit drug use among methadone patients and their children. Despite FFF’s effectiveness, uptake among methadone providers has been low due to implementation barriers. This presentation describes a 3-year effort to adapt/scale FFF, creating a modified version that is more feasible for methadone clinics to implement. Wider adoption of FFF should help reduce illicit drug use among these families and lower overdose deaths among this high-risk group.

Learning Objectives:

At the completion of this activity, participants will:
  • Describe the impact that opioid addiction/methadone treatment can have on patients' families and the need for family-based interventions
  • Describe how evidence-based interventions can be adapted without violating the core elements of the original intervention.
  • Describe patient and provider preferences for receiving/delivering interventions (e.g., treatment adjuncts) in a methadone clinic setting.