Improving Social Connectedness Through Digital Health to Enhance Recovery from OUD Among the Justice Involved Population

"The MPS App is a secure platform that allows text-based peer support for individuals in recovery from OUD. Participants assigned to this condition will be enrolled on a rolling basis into a peer support group on the app. All participants will receive onboarding assistance and will have access to the app for 6 months.~The app will include live moderation from a certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist and trained research assistants. Moderators will begin discussions with prompts and regulate the flow of conversation with standardized text language. Moderators will be able to respond in real-time to malicious messages or other flags that could impact participant safety. Built in natural language processing algorithms will also detect language requiring intervention and automatically alter the moderators and on-call clinicians."

A list of online peer support and mental health resources, drawn from SAMSHA and equivalent websites, will be provided to all participants, as an enhanced adjunct to their standard recovery plans.