ACEP E-QUAL 38: Opioid Use Disorder Access in the Time of COVID

Academic Life in Emergency Medicine

A panel of experts talks about the experience with opioid use disorder (OUD) in the time of COVID and specifically efforts to maintain access to MAT during COVID. Note that the original recording contained contributions from Dr. Karen Scott (President, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts) and Dr. Alister Martin (Emergency Medical Specialist, Founder Get Waivered) but were cut for the podcast due to time constraints.

Guests: Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS (Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine Chief of Emergency Services, Yale New Haven Hospital), Emily Kauffman, DO, MPH (Assistant Clinical Professor Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center), Sandra Schneider, MD, FACEP (Associate Executive Director, Clinical Affairs Past President American College of Emergency Physicians), Karen Scott, MD, MPD(President, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), Alister Martin MD, MPP (Emergency Medical Specialist, Founder, Get Waivered)

Host: Jason Woods, MD; Podcast Sound Engineer: Kellen Vu

www.acep.org/equal

Additional Resources:

• www.forefdn.org
• www.getwaivered.com/remote
• https://www.drugabuse.gov/ed-buprenorphine
• https://medicine.yale.edu/edbup/

References

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4. Hall OT, Hall OE, McGrath RP, Haile ZT. Years of Life Lost due to Opioid Overdose in Ohio: Temporal and Geographic Patterns of Excess Mortality. J Addict Med. 2020;14(2):156-162. doi:10.1097/ADM.0000000000000554