Dr. Josiah Rich, MD

• Infectious Disease Medicine

• Addiction Medicine

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• University Of Massachusetts / Boston Campus

  Medical School, 1987

• English

• French

• Drug use behaviors, trauma, and emotional affect following the overdose of a social network member: A qualitative investigation, 2022-07-08

• HIV-Related Research in Correctional Populations: Now is the Time, 2011-09-15

• Opioid Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution in Rhode Island, 2011-08-16

• Patient Simulation for Assessment of Layperson Management of Opioid Overdose with Intranasal Naloxone in a Recently-Released Prisoner Cohort, 2016-06-10

• Use of viral load surveillance data to assess linkage to care for persons with HIV released from corrections, 2018-02-12

• The impact of financial discharge from methadone maintenance therapy on incarceration, 2011-01-07

• Clinical care of incarcerated people with HIV, viral hepatitis, or tuberculosis, 2016-07-14

• Survey of US Correctional Institutions for Routine HCV Testing, 2015-01-09

• Intravenous use of illicit buprenorphine/naloxone to reverse an acute heroin overdose, 2012-04-23

• HIV and Re-Incarceration: Time for a Comprehensive Approach, 2014-11-01

• Medicaid Policies and Practices in US State Prison Systems, 2014-01-16

• Methadone and Buprenorphine Prescribing and Referral Practices in US Prison Systems: Results from a Nationwide Survey, 2009-07-21

• Integrating Correctional And Community Health Care For Formerly Incarcerated People Who Are Eligible For Medicaid, 2014-05-04

• Changes In Health Services Use After Receipt Of Medications For Opioid Use Disorder In A Statewide Correctional System, 2022-04-09

• Unknown Quantities: HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Community Corrections, 2014-05-05

• Police reports of accidental fentanyl overdose in the field: Correcting a culture-bound syndrome that harms us all, 2021-11-14

• What are the greatest health challenges facing people who are incarcerated? We need to ask them, 2021-06-09

• Physicians in US Prisons in the Era of Mass Incarceration, 2010-12-01

• Methadone maintenance treatment among patients exposed to illicit fentanyl in Rhode Island: Safety, dose, retention, and relapse at 6 months, 2018-08-25

• From Documenting Death to Comprehensive Care: Applying Lessons from the HIV/AIDS Epidemic to Addiction, 2014-01-09

• Two cases of intranasal naloxone self-administration in opioid overdose, 2013-09-19

• Attitudes toward Methadone among Out-of-Treatment Minority Injection Drug Users: Implications for Health Disparities, 2009-02-23

• Characterizing the burden of hepatitis C infection among entrants to Pennsylvania state prisons, 2004-2012, 2015-01-09

• The More Things Change: Buprenorphine/naloxone Diversion Continues While Treatment Remains Inaccessible, 2018-07-09

• Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration, 2012-01-03

• Survey Finds That Many Prisons And Jails Have Room To Improve HIV Testing And Coordination Of Postrelease Treatment, 2014-05-02

• Correctional Facilities as Partners in Reducing HIV Disparities, 2013-06-01

• Anticipated Barriers to Sustained Engagement in Treatment With Medications for Opioid Use Disorder After Release From Incarceration, 2022-08-02

• Hispanics, Incarceration, and TB/HIV Screening: A Missed Opportunity for Prevention, 2013-12-02

• "It's probably going to save my life;” Attitudes towards treatment among people incarcerated in the era of fentanyl, 2022-01-22

• Forced withdrawal from methadone maintenance therapy in criminal justice settings: A critical treatment barrier in the United States, 2013-02-22

• Preventing Death Among the Recently Incarcerated: An Argument for Naloxone Prescription Before Release, 2009-04-24

• Multi-level influences on increased overdose risk behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic among people who use drugs in Rhode Island: a qualitative investigation, 2023-02-04

• Effect of case management on HIV outcomes for community corrections population: Results of an 18-month randomized controlled trial, 2021-05-01

• History of Sex Exchange in Women with a History of Incarceration, 2016-06-02

• How Orthopedic Surgeons View Open Label Placebo Pills: Ethical and Effective, but Opposed to Personal Use, 2021-10-05

• One year of methadone maintenance treatment in a fentanyl endemic area: Safety, repeated exposure, retention, and remission, 2020-05-11

• Factors Associated With Receiving Rapid HIV Testing Among Individuals on Probation or Parole, 2023-06-19

• Overcoming obstacles to implementing methadone maintenance therapy for prisoners: Implications for policy and practice, 2010-08-19

• E stimating the I mpact of W ide S cale U ptake of S creening and M edications for O pioid U se D isorder in US P risons and J ails, 2020-01-18

• A Randomized controlled trial of intensive case management (Project Bridge) for HIV-infected probationers and parolees, 2018-01-08

• COVID-19 as a Frying Pan: The Promise and Perils of Pandemic-driven Reform, 2022-06-10

• Harmonizing healthcare and other resource measures for evaluating economic costs in substance use disorder research, 2021-04-08

• Adverse event associated with a change in nonprescription syringe sale policy, 2010-12-16

• HIV infection and risk of overdose: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2012-02-20

• An Empirical Ethics Agenda for Psychiatric Research Involving Prisoners, 2011-12-06

• HPV Vaccination Practices Among Juvenile Justice Facilities in the United States, 2010-03-06

• Women, Incarceration, and Health, 2014-02-04

• Implementing Opt-Out Programs at Los Angeles County Jail: A Gateway to Novel Research and Interventions, 2011-07-29

• Exposure to fentanyl-contaminated heroin and overdose risk among illicit opioid users in Rhode Island: A mixed methods study, 2017-06-01

• The benefits and implementation challenges of the first state-wide comprehensive medication for addictions program in a unified jail and prison setting, 2019-10-07

• The protective effect of trusted dealers against opioid overdose in the U.S., 2020-03-04

• Switching of opioid agonist treatment modality during imprisonment: a novel marker for increased support need during and following release from prison, 2022-01-05

• Adherence intervention for HIV-infected persons who use drugs: adaptation, open trial, and pilot randomized hybrid type 1 trial protocol, 2018-04-02

• Initiation of Buprenorphine During Incarceration and Retention in Treatment Upon Release, 2013-03-27

• Paying the Price: The Pressing Need for Quality, Cost and Outcomes Data to Improve Correctional Healthcare for Older Prisoners, 2014-03-22

• Medication Assisted Treatment in US Drug Courts: Results from a Nationwide Survey of Availability, Barriers and Attitudes, 2012-12-03

• Jails as Public Health Partners: Incarceration and Disparities Among Medically Underserved Men, 2014-02-04

• Cohort profile: seek, test, treat and retain United States criminal justice cohort, 2017-05-16

• A success story: HIV prevention for injection drug users in Rhode Island, 2006-12-04

• Fentanyl-related overdose during incarceration: a comprehensive review, 2021-05-19

• Opportunities to Diagnose, Treat, and Prevent HIV in the Criminal Justice System, 2010-12-01

• Integrating long-acting injectable treatment to improve medication adherence among persons living with HIV and opioid use disorder: study protocol, 2023-10-14

• Epidemiology and Treatment of Hepatitis B in Prisoners, 2017-08-07

• O ptimizing the impact of medications for opioid use disorder at release from prison and jail settings : A microsimulation modeling study, 2020-07-22

• Buprenorphine and Buprenorphine/Naloxone Diversion, Misuse, and Illicit Use: An International Review, 2011-03-01

• The incidence and prevalence of hepatitis C in prisons and other closed settings: Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2013-08-06

• A Randomized Trial of Methadone Initiation Prior to Release from Incarceration, 2012-02-02