Podcast: PHI’s Dr. Ariana Campbell Discusses Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the ER
In this podcast episode, Dr. Ariana Campbell, co-founder of PHI’s Bridge Center, shares how the Bridge Center helps the nation build addiction treatment programs.
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People come to the emergency department seeking all kinds of urgent care. What if they could also get treatment for opioid addiction?
Dr. Ariana Campbell, co-founder of PHI’s Bridge Center, joins the Public Health on Call podcast episode 878, “Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the ER,” to share how the Bridge Center helps the nation build addiction treatment programs by working in partnership with emergency departments. The episode takes a close look at how one rural hospital started prescribing buprenorphine to ER patients, and how scaling up treatment while reducing stigma at hospitals across the US is now helping thousands of patients every year.
Tune in to learn how the Bridge Center helps emergency departments provide prescription treatments for individuals dealing with substance use disorder, by prescribing buprenorphine—a medication primarily used to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) and also used to manage pain.
We realized that we could teach people how to do this; we could create champions who can lead these efforts and that it would work. And then we worked with urgency—realizing really the massive scale of the overdose epidemic—and that if we worked with urgency, we could create a whole system.Arianna Campbell, PA-C, MPH
Senior Director and Principal Investigator, Bridge, Public Health Institute
Many people disclose that they had never talked to a healthcare professional about their substance use. They didn't feel comfortable telling somebody because they thought they would be mistreated, and once they realized that as part of their visit in the emergency department, we could talk about this and provide a reasonable set of options, it just completely changed, not just my practice, but it changed.Arianna Campbell, PA-C, MPH
Senior Director and Principal Investigator, Bridge, Public Health Institute
Originally published by Public Health On Call
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