Season 11 • Episode 878

878 - Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the ER

Apr 3, 2025

16:26

Rural Health Emergency Medicine Addiction & Recovery Public Health Health Policy Opioid Crisis

Episode Description

About this episode:

People come to the emergency department seeking all kinds of urgent care. What if they could also get treatment for opioid addiction? In this episode: a look at how one rural hospital started prescribing buprenorphine to ER patients, and how scaling up treatment while reducing stigma at hospitals across the US is now helping thousands of patients every year.

Guest:

Arianna Campbell is an emergency department and addiction medicine PA at Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, California.

Host:

Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Show links and related content:

USACS Physician Assistant, Ariana Campbell, PA-C, Aims to Eliminate the Stigma of Substance Use Through Education and Intervention—The Shift Blog
The New Federal Regulations Aimed At Making Methadone More Accessible—And Less Stigmatizingcvb x—Public Health On Call (April 2024)
A New Type of Overdose Response—Public Health On Call (March 2023)

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