Similar to opioids, alcohol use disorder kills thousands, presents in our EDs daily, and has effective, safe medication treatment options. Kudos to reuben strayer Scott Weiner Rachel Haroz and others on this review.

Med ED community - test-taking advice from friend and EM colleague Andrew W Phillips. How do you approach questions, from the perspective of a question writer! Baystate Emergency Medicine

Leveraging existing regulations to remove barrier to starting methadone for patients with opioid use disorder - it is not as hard as you think!

Thanks Mercy Springfield Tapestry And others for hosting an amazing race to support people in our community with substance use disorder. Elizabeth Schoenfeld Lili Peacock-Chambers Baystate Emergency Medicine

The EMBED trial is available! Thinking about clinical decision systems in your health record to improve treatment for opioid use disorder? Check out our results👇 Honored to be part of an amazing team Ted Melnick Molly Moore Jeffery, PhD MPP Gail D'Onofrio Lauren Walter and many more!

What happens when a low-barrier #SUD #BridgeClinic that is NOT an opioid treatment program treats opioid withdrawal with #Methadone under the #72HourRule ? 87% of patients successfully link to OTP and 58% are retained at their OTP at 1 month.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1f5ji1LiD39y…

This was the product of a total team effort - americanair flight attendants that RAN to get the AED when I asked, proximate AEDs ⚡️, the EM resident who helped + the other 2 that also provided chest compressions 🫀

Proud of all meaningful work from Baystate Emergency Medicine researchers. Lauren Westafer, DO MPH MS and others giving a voice to our trans and gender non binary medical colleagues. Great work!!

Low barrier ED based methadone for patients with OUD can be done! Early qualitative work with providers complimenting our discussions with patients (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…) More medication treatment options = more engagement. Lauren Westafer, DO MPH MS Elizabeth Schoenfeld #SAEM2022

What will it take to enhance #clinician #wellbeing ? In JAMA, Christine Sinsky Ted Melnick and I propose a learning health system agenda jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Clinician wellbeing is a national priority, including of
Dr. Vivek Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General - it's time for a new approach

There’s an app for that!

Learn more about the EMBED tools in the #SAEM22 exhibit hall

And lots of free resources at embed.ynhh.org

Soon to be live nationally on all Epic & Cerner builds

Nice work by Wesley Holland & the EMBED team to share findings on disparities in ED treatment of OUD from secondary NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory trial #SAEM22

Dr Ben Church presenting an abstract on our methadone induction protocol for opioid use disorder Bill Soares at #SAEM22

Important paper from Ted Melnick and others offering the tools and resources to increase collaboration in trials in the ED.

In this study, we found
⭐️we have so much to do to ⬇️ stigma towards patients with addiction
⭐️patients with OUD have ⬆️ morbidity & mortality - it’s our job to mitigate OUD in ways we can much like tx DM
⭐️bupe is seen as complex (but not more so than other things we do)

With opioid overdose deaths surpassing records, it is more important than ever to engage patients. Come join us for a documentary from harm reduction agency Tapestry, Baystate Emergency Medicine and others exploring lived experience. Tonight, 6:00pm, link below

Hot off the Press: Moving Upstream: A Social Emergency Medicine Approach to Opioid Use Disorder annemergmed.com/article/S0196-… (Downstream, Midstream, and Upstream) Liz Samuels Kelly Doran MD MHS

Bill Soares Kathryn Hawk Aaron Fox, MD Ryan Marino, MD Rachel Haroz Jeanmarie Perrone MD Gail D'Onofrio Kelly Doran MD MHS And Edward Bernstein MD, Ziming Xuan, and I discuss existing models of ED SUD care and a #SocialEM approach in more detail here:

link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Kelly Doran MD MHS socialEMpact Andrew Levitt Center for Social Emergency Medicine ED-BRIDGE Harrison Alter MD MS