Medical Xpress September 17, 2025
The U.S. is in the midst of an opioid epidemic; overdose deaths from synthetic opioids such as fentanyl have increased more than 100-fold since 1999. Medications like buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone can all help treat opioid use disorder (OUD), curbing relapse, overdoses and death. But many barriers exist to people with OUD getting these medications, from providers not receiving adequate training to people with OUD feeling too stigmatized to find a specialist.
“All these little things can be major barriers when you’re in the throes of withdrawal or addiction,” explains psychologist Erin Kelly, Ph.D..
Along with a team led by Dr. Kelly, Gregory Jaffe, MD, started a substance use disorders clinic embedded within the Jefferson family medicine clinic and residency...
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