Hospital Use and Mortality Among Decarcerated Individuals With Substance Use Disorder After a Large-scale COVID-19 Emergency Prison Release Program

Peter Treitler; Molly Nowels; Kenneth A Feder; Brendan Saloner; Rusty Reeves; Lisa DeBilio; Stephen Crystal

doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.1200

Hospital Use and Mortality Among Decarcerated Individuals With Substance Use Disorder After a Large-scale COVID-19 Emergency Prison Release Program

JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Jun 2;4(6):e231200. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.1200.

Authors

Peter Treitler^{1

2}, Molly Nowels^{1

3}, Kenneth A Feder⁴, Brendan Saloner^{4

5}, Rusty Reeves^{6

7}, Lisa DeBilio⁶, Stephen Crystal^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
² School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
³ Department of Health Behavior, Society, and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey.
⁴ Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁶ Rutgers University Correctional Health Care, Trenton, New Jersey.
⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cohort study examines hospital use and mortality among persons with substance use disorder (SUD) who were released from New Jersey state prisons after a COVID-19 emergency prison release program.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Hospitals
Humans
Prisons
Substance-Related Disorders*

Plain language summary

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding