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E-Mail IMAGE: Lead author Julia Phillippi, PhD, CNM, assistant professor and academic director of the Nurse-Midwifery program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing view more Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center After a 2020 Vanderbilt University Medical Center study showed women have a difficult time accessing treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), investigators analyzed comments received from the study s participants to further shed light on barriers to care, which included everything from long on-hold times to difficult interactions with clinic receptionists during phone calls seeking appointments. A secret shopper study published in JAMA Network Open in 2020 used trained actors trying to get into treatment for opioid use disorder in 10 U.S. states. More than 10,000 unique patients were randomly assigned to be pregnant or non-pregnant and have private or Medicaid-based insurance to assess differences in the experiences of a ....