E-QUAL 2021 Enrollment Open for Opioid, Stroke Collaboratives
E-QUAL 2021 enrollment is open. Emergency departments can enroll for free. This year’s Opioid Wave IV, with…
Opioid Crisis
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E-QUAL 2021 Enrollment Open for Opioid, Stroke Collaboratives
E-QUAL 2021 enrollment is open. Emergency departments can enroll for free. This year’s Opioid Wave IV, with... -
ACEP Continues Multi-Front Efforts in Opioid Battle
In early October, St. Joseph’s University Medical Center Emergency Department in Paterson, New Jersey, became the first... -
By the Numbers: X-Waiver
Health Care Workers 1,200 signed up for the largest ever remote DEA X-Waiver session 3 states with...
ACEP Continues Multi-Front Efforts in Opioid Battle
In early October, St. Joseph’s University Medical Center Emergency Department in Paterson, New Jersey, became the first…
By the Numbers: X-Waiver
Health Care Workers 1,200 signed up for the largest ever remote DEA X-Waiver session 3 states with…
Improve Opioid Use Disorder Management by Changing Resident Training
The last decade has witnessed a brutal toll of opioid-related suffering and deaths. Opioid addiction has shifted from…
Get Your DEA X-Waiver Through Zoom This Fall
ACEP, in partnership with Providers Clinical Support System, is hosting Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) X-Waiver (DEA…
Improve Your Emergency Department’s Pain and Addiction Care
We may be in the midst of a global pandemic, but the opioid epidemic isn’t going away….
Improve Your Emergency Department’s Pain and Addiction Care
We may be in the midst of a global pandemic, but the opioid epidemic isn’t going away….
Congress Backs Alternatives to Opioids (ALTO) in the ED Program
In December 2019, Congress authorized funding for the Alternatives to Opioids (ALTO) in the Emergency Department program—the…
Naloxone Is Just One Piece of the Opioid Puzzle
Drug overdose deaths nearly tripled in the United States between 1999 and 2014. The majority involved opioids.1…
Treatment Strategies for Precipitated Opioid Withdrawal after Naloxone Rescue
Abstinence-related, or spontaneous, withdrawal occurs gradually over hours to days, whereas precipitated withdrawal, caused by the administration…