id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-347579-aqgauumt Csete, Joanne United States drug courts and opioid agonist therapy: Missing the target of overdose reduction 2020-06-09 .txt text/plain 4141 173 55 • Drug courts overall have had limited success in improving access to OUD treatment and other health and social services needed to achieve significant reduction in overdose death. • Drug courts overall have had limited success in improving access to OUD treatment and other health and social services needed to achieve significant reduction in overdose death. In the face of such a crisis, it might be supposed that policy-makers would do everything possible to reduce overdose risk, including improving access to the several authorized forms of proven treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). A 2013 national survey of drug courts found that although virtually all of the courts reported having participants with opioid use disorders, only 47% offered agonist therapy as an option for court-supervised treatment (Matusow, Dickman, Rich, Fong, Dumont, Hardin et al., 2013) . ./cache/cord-347579-aqgauumt.txt ./txt/cord-347579-aqgauumt.txt