ResearchProjects

Older adults with opioid use disorder who receive care in opioid treatment programs are at heightened risk of being socially isolated, reporting loneliness, and experiencing everyday stigma. Measuring the lack of social connectedness and its relationship to intersectional stigma is important given their possible influence on treatment and health outcomes. The information learned from this project will inform providers and policymakers across the spectrum of clinical care on improving social connectedness among a growing yet often overlooked population made vulnerable.