Edouard Coupet, Gail D'Onofrio, Marek Chawarski, E Jennifer Edelman, Patrick G O'Connor, Patricia Owens, Shara Martel, David A Fiellin, Ethan Cowan, Lynne Richardson, Kristen Huntley, Lauren K Whiteside, Michael S Lyons, Richard E Rothman, Michael Pantalon, Kathryn Hawk
BACKGROUND Little is known regarding the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of emergency department (ED) patients with untreated opioid use disorder (OUD) and the relationship of those characteristics with whether they were seeking a referral to substance use treatment at the time of their ED visit. METHODS Using data collected from 2/2017-1/2019 from participants enrolled in Project ED Health (CTN-0069), we conducted a cross-sectional analysis of patients with untreated moderate to severe OUD presenting to one of four EDs in Baltimore, New York City, Cincinnati, or Seattle...
November 26, 2020: Drug and Alcohol Dependence