Many ERs Fail People Who Struggle With Addiction. These New Approaches Might Help [npr.org]

Alison Cebulla 8/24/217:30 AM

By Aneri Pattani, National Public Radio, August 21, 2021

For years, Kayla West watched the opioid epidemic tear through her eastern Tennessee community. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, she treated people with mental illness but felt she needed to do more to address addiction.

So in 2020, when the state created a position to help hospitals improve addiction care in the emergency room, West jumped at the opportunity.

She knew that many people with substance use disorders land in the ER, and that starting medications for opioid use — like buprenorphine (often known by the brand name Suboxone) — could double a person's chance of staying in treatment a month later.

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