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In this excellent video from the HMA Institute on Addiction, Dr. R. Corey Waller describes the research on the brain science behind addiction and the implications for public policy change (20 minutes into the video). He says, “In the criminal justice world, we have to stop criminalizing patients for having a disease that we have … Read more
The Emergency Department is a health care setting in which patients with OUD commonly present, seeking more opioids to maintain their addiction, seeking help with opioid withdrawal, or in some tragic instances, needing emergency resuscitation for opioid overdose. Emergency Department (ED) physicians are thus uniquely positioned to intervene to help patients with OUD at a critical moment in the addiction cycle.
Experts from the California Society of Addiction Medicine have written guidelines for access to addiction medicine services to be used by leaders and advocates to advance treatment across different “silos of care” such as incarcerated setting, licensed addiction treatment settings, and community-based behavioral health systems.
In 2015 California Society for Addiction Medicine (CSAM) published its survey of bronze-level plans offered by Covered California. The report indicated that, while coverage varied, none of the plans offered an acceptable level of coverage for the treatment of patients with opioid use disorders.