The Engagement and Retention research projects are separate but related studies that share the central premise that treating chronic pain improves both pain and OUD outcomes. Both involve tailoring a pain self-management (PSM) intervention to patients with co-occurring chronic pain and OUD and evaluating intervention effectiveness as well as barriers and facilitators to equitable and sustained implementation.
For the Engagement project, investigators are looking at whether PSM can improve pain and engage primary care patients in medication treatment for OUD. The Retention project focuses on people who are already engaged in office-based addiction treatment programs to determine whether PSM and/or flexibly dosed buprenorphine/naloxone can improve pain and retention in treatment.