medication-assisted treatment

Yvette and Scott, both recovering heroin users, now take methadone daily from a clinic in the Southend of Boston.

Health & Safety

After An Overdose, Patients Aren't Getting Treatments That Could Prevent The Next One

9:22am June 19, 2018

by Martha Bebinger

An overdose is a wake-up call for many people with addiction. So why aren't patients being offered medications that could keep them from looking for the next dangerous hit of drugs?

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Hospital emergency departments are tasked with saving the lives of people who overdose on opioids. Clinicians and researchers hope that more can be done during the hospital encounter to connect people with treatment.

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Hospitals Could Do More For Survivors Of Opioid Overdoses, Study Suggests

2:15pm August 22, 2017

by Andrea Hsu

Researchers say hospitals are missing an opportunity to help people with opioid addiction get into treatment by not doing enough when they show up in emergency rooms after an overdose.