Table 1 Example interview questions of pharmacy administration and dispensing of methadone for opioid use disorder
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Patient experience with PADMOUD (e.g., medication formulation acceptance, benefits, disadvantages) | Can you please describe your recent experience receiving take-home methadone doses from the pharmacy as part of this study As you know, this study also involved drinking one methadone dose at the pharmacy before you received your weekly take-home doses. Can you please describe your experience drinking your methadone dose while at the pharmacy as part of this study How comfortable would you be with dosing and receiving your take-home methadone doses from a pharmacy? How comfortable do you think pharmacy staff are, in general, with dispensing methadone for opioid use disorder? What do you think are the potential advantages and benefits of methadone dosing and dispensing take-home methadone doses for opioid use disorder at a pharmacy? Do you think pharmacist-provided services for methadone treatment (e.g., dosing and dispensing take-home doses) could be important for individuals with opioid use disorder? |
Perceived support for PADMOUD | Do you think your friends and family would be supportive of patients receiving take-home methadone doses from a pharmacy? Do you think the staff at the methadone clinic (e.g., doctors, counselors, and nurses) would be supportive of patients receiving take-home methadone doses from a pharmacy? How do you think pharmacists and pharmacy staff would feel about dispensing methadone take-home doses for opioid use disorder? Who or what would most influence your decision to receive your take-home methadone doses from a local pharmacy and why? |
Suggestions for improving implementation of PADMOUD | What factors or circumstances do you think would make it easiest for patients to receive take-home methadone doses at a pharmacy? What factors or circumstances do you think would make it impossible for patients to receive take-home methadone doses at a pharmacy? If you could give advice to pharmacists in general about how to support patients receiving methadone treatment for opioid use disorder, what would you say? Let’s say a few local pharmacies in the area were planning to start dispensing take-home methadone doses. What do you think is the most important thing the pharmacies should consider before doing that? Is there anything else you would like to share, or feel it’s important for us to know, about the feasibility, acceptability, or clinical impact of pharmacy-based methadone dispensing or the study in general? |