Provider
Providers seeking to implement Motivational Interviewing for Opioid Use Disorder (MI-OUD) face barriers such as fidelity monitoring, and facilitators such as openness towards new techniques.
Barriers
Providers often have large caseloads and assignments aside from MI-OUD, which limits time for MI-OUD training and fidelity monitoring.
In the same manner that patients used to the 12-Step Approach may have difficulty adjusting to MI-OUD, providers trained in confrontational interventions and/or the 12-Step Approach may have difficulty adjusting to MI-OUD due to the different philosophical approach.
Facilitators
Many addiction providers embrace a patient-centric approach and therefore find the MI-OUD framework and the concept of “meeting patients where they are” highly appealing.