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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.

As the crisis of opioid use disorder (OUD) spread throughout the United States, the health care system took action to develop new treatments and approaches to treating people with OUD.