Introduction
Over the past year, a group of physicians and pharmacists with expertise in emergency medicine, toxicology, and addiction medicine developed a white paper for the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) on Management of Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department. It is our attempt to share current best practices and provide comprehensive evidence-based recommendations for providers in acute care settings managing patients being harmed-or at risk to be harmed-by opioids.
The guideline is set up as 48 discrete, commonly-encountered questions with extensively-referenced, high-yield answers answer based on available evidence and expert consensus within our group.
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