The OUD cascade of care: Tailoring pathways for buprenorphine treatment.

In this webinar for the CTN Translation & Implementation SIG, Dr. Arthur Robin Williams, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, presented about the OUD Cascade of Care, a public health framework for monitoring population-level outcomes with an emphasis on MOUD initiation and retention. Buprenorphine treatment can be tailored under the Cascade framework based on patient risk level. For instance, patients with active fentanyl use who are naïve to buprenorphine often need more intensive services early in treatment compared to patients entering care already on buprenorphine, whether prescribed or otherwise.