Managing Opioid Withdrawal in the Emergency Department With Buprenorphine

Emergency departments (EDs) provide acute treatment for patients with opioid use disorder, including opioid overdose and opioid withdrawal, and serve as access portals for the initiation of medication-assisted therapy (also called medication for addiction treatment, or medication for opioid use disorder).1 To combat the public health crisis associated with opioid use disorder, the surgeon general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, state governments, and many others have called on EDs to improve the quality of care offered to this patient population, particularly through the expanded use of buprenorphine.

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