Posted on Aug 18, 2018
This E.R. Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand. That’s Very Rare.
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Some hospital emergency departments are giving people medicine for withdrawal, plugging a hole in a system that too often fails to provide immediate treatment.
This E.R. Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand. That’s Very Rare.
Posted from nytimes.com
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Donna Brickey
Very thankful that more ER's are using buprenorphine. Now we just need some way to set up follow up therapy for those patients that are discharged for the after 48 hour part....We also need more good MD"s who give good instructions and patients like Charlie who follow them. Fortunately for him, my husband has had docs who carefully prescribed opiods to him and instructed him on how to wean off of them. He's had over a dozen surgeries and procedures, but never has become addicted to the painkillers.
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Very interesting. I worked in a dilaudid free ED which is a level 1 trauma center and was nice. As hard as opioid withdrawal is, it is on of the safest drugs to go cold turkey on. Withdrawal is definitely hard, but can be done (alcoholics addiction is a much harder and dangerous detox). I would like to see a decrease in opioid prescriptions in the first place. Great article though and props to them helping people and no blowing them off one our nations biggest problems medically and financially.
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SGT (Join to see)
One of the reasons I haven't relapsed on alcohol is the detox; did it once and will by God never do it again.
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