{"id":234,"date":"2010-03-22T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T20:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2014-01-24T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:12:00","slug":"top","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/clinical-programs\/past-clinical-programs\/top\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitional Opioid Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>The Transitional\u00a0Opioid Program (TOP) is a program that provides short-course (90 days) of transitional methadone for hospitalized\u00a0opioid dependent patients after discharge from Boston Medical Center.\u00a0 Two major goals of this program are to increase access to important health and substance abuse related services and enhance clients\u2019 harm reduction skills.<br \/>\nThis program was funded by the Department of Public Health, HIV\/AIDS Bureau and Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Shanahan CW, Beers D, Alford DP, Brigandi E, Samet JH. A Transitional Opioid Program to Engage Hospitalized Drug Users. J. General Internal Medicine, 25(8):803-808, August 2010. PMID: 20237960.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Contact <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Christopher Shanahan, MD, MPH<a href=\"mailto:Donna.Beers@bmc.org\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nChristopher.Shanahan@bmc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transitional\u00a0Opioid Program (TOP) is a program that provides short-course (90 days) of transitional methadone for hospitalized\u00a0opioid dependent patients after discharge from Boston Medical Center.\u00a0 Two major goals of this program are to increase access to important health and substance abuse related services and enhance clients\u2019 harm reduction skills. This program was funded by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"featured_media":0,"parent":5271,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6948,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/6948"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}