Emergency Department MOUD and Linkage to Care

Patients who are seen in the emergency department for a non-fatal opioid overdose are at high risk of death after discharge. Often these patients are not offered medication that can reduce that risk. This session discusses the benefits of starting medications for opioid use disorder during the emergency department visit, the barriers to doing so, and resources available to support a change in practice. Learning objectives: Describe outcomes associated with non-fatal overdose visits without treatment for opioid use disorder, understand impact of emergency department medications for opioid use disorder, identify emergency department treatment gaps, describe reported barriers to treatment provision, recognize the importance of linkage to care, name local resources that support emergency department initiation of medications for opioid use disorder and linkage to care.

Speaker: Liz Wolkin, RN, MSN, CEN, NPD-BC