ACEP E-QUAL 38: Opioid Use Disorder Access in the Time of COVID

<p style="text-align:left;">A panel of experts talks about the experience with opioid use disorder (OUD) in the time of COVID and specifically efforts to maintain access to MAT during COVID. Note that the original recording contained contributions from Dr. Karen Scott (President, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts) and Dr. Alister Martin (Emergency Medical Specialist, Founder Get Waivered) but were cut for the podcast due to time constraints.</p> <p style="text-align:left;">Guests: Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS (Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine Chief of Emergency Services, Yale New Haven Hospital), Emily Kauffman, DO, MPH (Assistant Clinical Professor Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center), Sandra Schneider, MD, FACEP (Associate Executive Director, Clinical Affairs Past President American College of Emergency Physicians), Karen Scott, MD, MPD(President, Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), Alister Martin MD, MPP (Emergency Medical Specialist, Founder, Get Waivered)</p> <p style="text-align:center;">Host: Jason Woods, MD; Podcast Sound Engineer: Kellen Vu </p> <p style="text-align:center;"><a href='http://www.acep.org/equal'>www.acep.org/equal </a></p> Additional Resources: <ul style="text-align:left;"><li><a href='http://www.forefdn.org'>www.forefdn.org </a></li> <li><a href='http://www.getwaivered.com/remote'>www.getwaivered.com/remote </a></li> <li><a href='https://www.drugabuse.gov/ed-buprenorphine'>https://www.drugabuse.gov/ed-buprenorphine </a></li> <li><a href='https://medicine.yale.edu/edbup/'>https://medicine.yale.edu/edbup/ </a></li> </ul> References <ol><li style="text-align:left;">Volkow ND. Collision of the COVID-19 and Addiction Epidemics. Ann Intern Med. 2020;173(1):61-62. doi:10.7326/M20-1212</li> <li style="text-align:left;">Hedegaard H, Minino A and Warner M. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2018. NCHS Data Brief, number 356. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics 2020.</li> <li style="text-align:l