Buprenorphine Injection Among Rural Persons Who Inject Drugs

Kaitlin A Zinsli; Elenore P Bhatraju; Judith Feinberg; Thomas J Stopka; Peter D Friedmann; William Zule; Hannah L F Cooper; April M Young; P Todd Korthuis; Mai T Pho; Wiley D Jenkins; William C Miller; Vivian F Go; David W Seal; Ryan P Westergaard; Rob J Fredericksen; Joseph A Delaney; Judith I Tsui

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.50108

Buprenorphine Injection Among Rural Persons Who Inject Drugs

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Dec 2;7(12):e2450108. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.50108.

Authors

Kaitlin A Zinsli¹, Elenore P Bhatraju², Judith Feinberg³, Thomas J Stopka⁴, Peter D Friedmann⁵, William Zule⁶, Hannah L F Cooper⁷, April M Young⁸, P Todd Korthuis⁹, Mai T Pho¹⁰, Wiley D Jenkins¹¹, William C Miller¹², Vivian F Go¹³, David W Seal¹⁴, Ryan P Westergaard¹⁵, Rob J Fredericksen², Joseph A Delaney^{1

2}, Judith I Tsui²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle.
² Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
³ West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown.
⁴ Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, Springfield.
⁶ Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions Program, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
⁷ Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
⁹ Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
¹¹ Department of Public Health Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
¹² Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
¹³ Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
¹⁴ Department of Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
¹⁵ University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study investigates buprenorphine injection, including factors associated with this use, among rural individuals who inject drugs.