{"id":4519,"date":"2024-07-31T14:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T18:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/?p=4519"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T19:14:22","slug":"dr-ogrady-and-courtney-sheehan-secure-grant-to-treat-opioid-use-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/2024\/07\/31\/dr-ogrady-and-courtney-sheehan-secure-grant-to-treat-opioid-use-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. O\u2019Grady and Courtney Sheehan Secure Grant to Treat Opioid Use Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/Megan-OGrady_website-size.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/Megan-OGrady_website-size.jpg\" alt=\"Megan O'Grady\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/Megan-OGrady_website-size.jpg 200w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/232\/2023\/11\/Megan-OGrady_website-size-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Megan O\u2019Grady (PI), Assistant Professor in Public Health Sciences and Courtney Sheehan (Co-PI), LPC, Senior Program Director, at Community Health Resources (CHR), a community-based behavioral health provider in Connecticut, have been newly awarded a one-year grant from the University of Connecticut Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) titled <em>\u201cIdentifying Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation of Long-Acting Injectable Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Community-Based Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)\u201d <\/em>for $10,000. Co-investigators at UConn include Dr. Morica Hutchison (Public Health Sciences) and Dr. Nate Rickles (School of Pharmacy) as well as Dr. Robin Deutsch at CHR.<\/p>\n<p>Goal(s) and Objectives of the project: \u00a0This grant will investigate implementation barriers and facilitators for using long-acting injectable medications (e.g., buprenorphine) to treat opioid use disorder in certified community behavioral health clinics CCBHCs. We will analyze electronic health records from Connecticut-based CCBHC clinics to examine use of long-acting injectable medications for opioid use disorder. We will also conduct interviews with staff\/providers and patients to understand barriers and facilitators to using these medications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Megan O\u2019Grady (PI), Assistant Professor in Public Health Sciences and Courtney Sheehan (Co-PI), LPC, Senior Program Director, at Community Health Resources (CHR), a community-based behavioral health provider in Connecticut, have been newly awarded a one-year grant from the University of Connecticut Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) titled \u201cIdentifying Barriers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 13:01:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4519\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/public-health-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}