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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders

E-QUAL Network Opioid Initiative

Our aims for this initiative include helping EDs to implement alternatives to opioids, improve opioid prescribing, and adopt harm reduction strategies such as naloxone prescribing and medication-assisted therapies.

Opioid Resources

 

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Information Papers

 

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Sobering Centers

 

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PTSD

 

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Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention in the ED

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CME

E-QUAL Opioids Wave I – Introduction
E-QUAL Opioids Wave I – Treating Patients with Opioid-Use Disorder in the ED
E-QUAL Opioids Wave I – Harm Reduction
E-QUAL Opioids Wave I – Alternatives to Opioids
E-QUAL Opioids Wave I – Safe Opioid Prescribing
Pain Management, Palliative Care, and Addiction CME Collection

Bookstore

Emergency Management Of Selected Drugs Of Abuse
Behavioral Emergencies For The Emergency Physician

Policy Statements

911 Caller Good Samaritan Laws
Alcohol Advertising
Alcohol Screening in the Emergency Department
Civil Commitment
Distracted and Impaired Driving
Electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Naloxone Prescriptions by Emergency Physicians
Naloxone Access and Utilization for Suspected Opioid Overdoses
Pediatric Mental Health Emergencies in the Pediatric Mental Health Emergencies in the Emergency Department
Use of Patient Restraints

Clinical Policies

Opioids
Psychiatric Patient

A TOOL FOR MANAGING SUICIDAL PATIENTS IN THE ED

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Toxicology Section

Pain Management and Addiction Medicine Section

 

Opioids
Update on ACEP’s Opioid Advocacy Efforts
State Legislation Requiring Emergency Medication Assisted Therapy for Opioid Use Disorder
Synthetic Opioids and the Ongoing Epidemic
A High Potency Opioid: Carfentanil, Lethal and on the Rise
Cardiotoxicity of Loperamide and Select Opioids

Illicit Drugs
Designer Drugs
Tox Hot Topics: Excited Delirium—Who and What?
Pediatric Marijuana Exposures
Take on Toxicology!
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome: The Anti-Munchies

Alcohol
Treating Toxic Alcohols Like It’s 1999 (…again)
Tox Hot Topics: Methanol and Ethylene Glycol: Overview and a Reminder to Use Therapeutic Adjuncts
Palcohol and Ethanol

Federal Mental Health Advocacy

ACEP-Supported Innovations Bill Sent to President
Congress Approves Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act
Excellence in Mental Health & Addiction Treatment Expansion Act - HR 3931
ACEP Letter of Support - S. 1905
ACEP Letter of Support for the "21st Century Cures Act" - House
ACEP Letter of Support for the "21st Century Cures Act" - Senate

State Efforts to Address Psychiatric Hold Issues

STATE LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS TO FACILITATE EMERGENCY INVOLUNTARY PSYCHIATRIC EVALUATION
CT BILL FOR A PILOT PROGRAM TO EXPEDITE TRANSFER AND CARE OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
NJ ACEP SENATE TESTIMONY ON PSYCH BILLS
RI RESOLUTION TO STUDY PSYCHIATRIC HOLDS IN THE ED
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