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Emergency departments (EDs) may be the primary, and even only, connection to the healthcare system for significant numbers of people with opioid use disorder (OUD) or opioid overdose, making them important sites of intervention for people with OUD. EDs can serve as a bridge, connecting patients with OUD to long-term outpatient care.

We spoke with Michele Calvo, MPH, Director of Opioid Response and Policy at the New Jersey Department of Health, to further explore the state’s efforts in providing substance use disorder treatment in NJ emergency departments.

Our New Jersey State Policy Lab pilot project to examine facilitators and barriers to buprenorphine use in New Jersey’s emergency departments (EDs) for patients presenting with opioid use disorder (OUD) is a timely contribution to the research on this emerging and important topic.