Substance Use Disorders
This section provides EMS professionals with resources and training focused on identifying, managing and responding to patients with substance use disorders (SUDs). Articles cover recognition of drug and alcohol use in the field, treatment best practices, harm reduction strategies, and the evolving role of EMS in the opioid crisis. Learn how to address provider safety, compassion fatigue and stigma, while improving patient outcomes through evidence-based care and community partnerships.
Taigman discusses his 5-step wellness checkup, how to look after the welfare of others, as well as coping strategies, including his own journey into meditation
In this episode, hear the experts discuss pitfalls and pearls regarding the unpredictable presentations that can occur in patients abusing methamphetamine.
CAPCE-approved online program confronts ‘hero culture’ and shares tools to address mental health challenges
Alton Banks apparently encountered the drug during a one-hour period after he left a pool and got home
Test your knowledge of fentanyl exposure, protection and treatment
The drug will be available without a prescription in 45 states, and Walgreens said they are “eager and willing” to increase that number
From fentanyl, to heroin, to ketamine, to carfentanil: the drug epidemic didn’t start in the back of an ambulance
There is concern the White House actions will be empty talk without a long-term commitment to paying for more addiction treatment
A study of four states estimated that 13 percent to 35 percent of the Medicaid expansion population abused or were dependent on opioids
Officials said a third student became ill at the high school from taking an unknown drug
Tron Gorbonosenko was charged with multiple felonies after allegedly killing two people while driving intoxicated
Data shows that 64,070 people died from overdoses in 2016, compared to the 58,200 that died in the Vietnam War
Officials launched an $8 million effort to attract ideas for using technology to solve the national opioid addiction crisis that has touched scores of families
Officials are skeptical of the study that said one fewer person has died a month of an opioid overdose since the sale of legal marijuana
Manchester aldermanic candidate Bob O’Sullivan wants to jail and treat addicts who overdose and are revived
Police officers are investigating how the child overdosed and how he got the drugs
The naloxone will be provided to the school district for free; the school nurses said they want to help save lives
The sites allow people suffering from heroin and opioid addiction to inject drugs under the supervision of medical professionals
Gov. Rick Scott, who declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in May, wants more than $50 million in funding
Officials from four federal health agencies delivered their dire assessment of the opioid epidemic
More than 60,000 kits of the drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose will be available for two years with $5 million in state funding
Attorney General Tom Miller said the deal makes public agencies eligible for a $6-per-dose rebate on naloxone purchases
The lawsuit alleges the pharma companies used deceptive marketing practices to tout the benefits of opioids for chronic pain
Walgreens Boots Alliance is specifically targeting locations near military bases and other areas where the opioid epidemic has challenged communities
Attorney General Mike DeWine is creating a task force of health insurers to find way to solve the addiction crisis
Darren Lawrence began acting violently before punching a female EMT on the way to the hospital, according to police
Courtesy of Bound Tree University and Bound Tree Medical
Officials said the girl was very articulate and composed when telling the dispatchers her mother was unresponsive
The agency notified 74 manufacturers of so-called immediate-release opioids that their drugs will now be subject to the tougher requirements
Our co-hosts are joined by EMS1 video producer Ray Kemp to discuss his latest video project, which looks at an addict’s side of addiction
Barbara Harshman walked a caller through the process of what to do when an overdose victim began to turn blue
“It’s a demographic that people are more reluctant to challenge,” Hartford Healthcare Network Senior VP Patricia Rehmer said
Melania Trump wants to work in tandem with the president’s drug commission on youth and prevention initiatives
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