Podcast: PHI’s Bridge Experts on Solutions to the Opioid Crisis
In these High Truth on Drugs and Addiction podcast episodes, host Dr. Roneet Lev speaks with PHI experts working to address the opioid crisis, including Dr. Mary Maddux-Gonzalez, coach with PHI’s National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health and the California Overdose Prevention Network Accelerator Program; and Arianna Campbell co-founder of PHI’s CA Bridge.
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Strategic Initiatives
Opioids
High Truth on Drugs and Addiction host Dr. Roneet Lev speaks with PHI experts who are finding innovative ways to support people dealing with substance use, and discuss how communities can address the opioid crisis.
Episode #145 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Gene Hern on Prehospital Medicine
What role does Prehospital Medicine or First Responders have in treating addiction? Is it just naloxone, or is there more?
On this episode of High Truths on Drugs and Addiction, Dr. Roneet Lev speaks with Dr. Gene Hern, project director of PHI’s EMS Bridge, about the need to bridge the gap between EMS and hospital care in response to the opioid epidemic. Dr. Hern advocates for initiatives such as the distribution of naloxone, connecting patients with substance use navigators and EMS-provided buprenorphine—and shares how this can become a national standard for responding to overdose clusters.
Episode #133 High Truth on Drugs and Addiction with Arianna Campbell on California Bridge MAT program
MAT Medication Assisted Treatment is key for treating opioid addiction. No one should suffer from opioid withdrawal and everyone with an opioid use disorder should receive treatment with compassion and hope. California Bridge assists in providing MAT 24/7 through the emergency departments.
On this episode of High Truths on Drugs and Addiction, Dr. Roneet Lev speaks with Arianna Campbell from PHI’s CA Bridge and her work initiating CA Bridge’s MAT program to treat patients with opioid use disorder.
Learn about these topics in the podcast
- How MAT Medication Assisted Treatment is key for treating opioid addiction.
- Learning about barriers to medication assisted treatment (MAT) and new opportunities to increase access.
- Identifying practical steps they can take to get more clinicians to prescribe addiction treatment in their community.
There is a moment when somebody says, “I’m ready for treatment,” and if the system does not support them in that moment, we sometimes lose them.Arianna Campbell, PA-C
Founder, Principal Investigator of PHI’s Bridge Program
It is important for all emergency departments to offer evidence based treatment, but it needs to be a system of care and that system has to include a telehealth option.Arianna Campbell, PA-C
Founder, Principal Investigator of PHI’s Bridge Program
Episode #126 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction on Xing the X Waiver
Now that the X-Waiver is no longer required for clinicians to prescribe addiction treatment, what comes next?
On this episode of High Truths on Drugs and Addiction, Mary Maddux-Gonzalez from PHI’s National Overdose Prevention Network sits down with Dr. Roneet Lev, who served as the first Chief Medical Officer of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Together, they explore what the new legislative move means for providers and how to get more clinicians to prescribe addiction treatment.
Learn about these topics in the podcast
- Understanding the implications of the elimination of the DEA X-Waiver.
- Learning about barriers to medication assisted treatment (MAT) and new opportunities to increase access.
- Identifying practical steps they can take to get more clinicians to prescribe addiction treatment in their community.
This podcast features audio recording from the Dialogue4Health web forum, “End of the X Waiver: A New Frontier in Addiction Treatment.”
I'm very excited and optimistic for the future of addiction, treatment innovations, and also for prevention… I see a future where every large hospital system has an addiction medicine service.Dr. Roneet Lev
Emergency and Addiction Physician
Originally published by High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
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