Five Steps to Help You Manage Opioid Use Disorder Patients
From 2002 to 2017, there has been more than a fourfold increase in the total number of…
Opioid Crisis
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Five Steps to Help You Manage Opioid Use Disorder Patients
From 2002 to 2017, there has been more than a fourfold increase in the total number of... -
Medication-Assisted Therapy Is More Than Just Buprenorphine
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth part of an ongoing series on what emergency physicians can do... -
ACEP Meets with National Institute for Drug Abuse about Opioids
ACEP’s Pawan Goyal, MD, MHA; Sandy Schneider, MD, FACEP; Cynthia Singh, MS; and several other leaders met...
Medication-Assisted Therapy Is More Than Just Buprenorphine
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth part of an ongoing series on what emergency physicians can do…
ACEP Meets with National Institute for Drug Abuse about Opioids
ACEP’s Pawan Goyal, MD, MHA; Sandy Schneider, MD, FACEP; Cynthia Singh, MS; and several other leaders met…
U.S. Congress Passes Comprehensive Opioid Package
On Oct. 24, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping legislative package of bills to address the nation’s…
Reader Raises 2 Issues with Buprenorphine Article
I am writing in response to the article “Buprenorphine Explained, And Opioid Addiction Treatment Tips” published in…
ACEP Participates in Buprenorphine Discussion
On Oct. 4, 2018, ACEP participated in a meeting along with 10 other provider groups to discuss…
A Quick Guide to Buprenorphine Products
There are multiple forms for buprenorphine (commonly called bupe), and this can prove confusing. Although we may…
Suboxone 101: The Skinny on This Opioid-Dependence Drug
Suboxone is a sublingual (SL) film dosage form containing a partial opioid agonist (buprenorphine) and an opioid antagonist (naloxone) for treating opioid dependence.1…
ACEP Meets with the American College of Physicians
In September, Dr. Kivela led a teleconference discussion with the American College of Physicians (ACP) on ACEP…
ACEP Helps Develop Fentanyl Safety Video for First Responders
The Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted a White House event last month to announce the release of…
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With regard to state legislative activity regulating the opioid prescribing practices of emergency physicians, which of the following wouId you support? Check all that apply.
- Restrictions on duration (36%, 229 Votes)
- Restrictions of quantity (34%, 219 Votes)
- Mandatory checking of prescription drug monitoring systems for all opioid prescriptions from the ED (30%, 194 Votes)
Total Voters: 367
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