“If You’re Willing to Work…We Can Work With You”: Obligatory Labor at Residential Substance Use Services Providers in North Carolina
More providers require residents to work in an agency-owned and operated commercial enterprise than allow access to opioid agonist treatment, the gold standard treatment for opioid use disorder. Adjustments to state regulations may help improve the availability of evidence-based services and increase regulatory supervision of these service providers.
Authors
- Sarah K. Dixon
- Brandon Morrissey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7103-4924)
- Alejandra Salemi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1979-6569)
- Roxanne Saucier
- Jennifer Carroll (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5711-7419)
- Taleed El‐Sabawi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7892-6100)
- Bayla Ostrach
Institutions
- Boston Medical Center (US)
- Open Society Foundations (US)
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Duke University (US)
- Wayne State University (US)
- Research for Action (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Substance Use & Misuse
- Published
- 2026-01-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2025.2611422
- Primary Topic
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00