In early October, St. Joseph’s University Medical Center Emergency Department in Paterson, New Jersey, became the first…
Health Care Workers 1,200 signed up for the largest ever remote DEA X-Waiver session 3 states with…
The last decade has witnessed a brutal toll of opioid-related suffering and deaths. Opioid addiction has shifted from…
ACEP, in partnership with Providers Clinical Support System, is hosting Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) X-Waiver (DEA…
We may be in the midst of a global pandemic, but the opioid epidemic isn’t going away….
In December 2019, Congress authorized funding for the Alternatives to Opioids (ALTO) in the Emergency Department program—the…
Drug overdose deaths nearly tripled in the United States between 1999 and 2014. The majority involved opioids.1…
Abstinence-related, or spontaneous, withdrawal occurs gradually over hours to days, whereas precipitated withdrawal, caused by the administration…
Fewer than one in 10 primary care providers in the U.S. can prescribe the opioid-addiction medication buprenorphine,…