When:  Thursday, January 16^th 1:00 – 2:30 PM

Where:  NHHA/FHC, 125 Airport Road, Concord NH

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Topic:  Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) has reached crisis levels across the United States in recent years and the impact is felt in no place more than our nation’s Emergency Departments. The Get Waivered Campaign at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in collaboration with behavioral economics firm ideas42, has explored insights and approaches from behavioral science to optimize our emergency department OUD treatment protocols to 1) get physicians waivered and 2) enable physicians to help more patients get into effective, evidence-based treatment. Key components of our approach include an on-demand, transitional outpatient ‘Bridge’ clinic and immediate access to buprenorphine in the emergency department (dual pathway model) which was the first hospital to offer this in Massachusetts in 2017 and among the first three hospitals nationwide. Our hospital-behavioral economics firm collaboration has developed a set of behavioral interventions (or nudges) that were launched and tested in MGH’s emergency department that increased the rates of ED clinician-initiated treatment for OUD. Read more here or visit our state partner sites in Texas (site) through Get Waivered Texas, and Nebraska (site) through Get Waivered Nebraska to learn more. 

Presenter:  Alister Martin, MD, MPP is an emergency physician affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is the founder of the Get Waivered campaign.  Massachusetts is the #1 state in the U.S. for emergency department visits for patients struggling with opioid addiction and as a young physician in training, Alister found that most of these patients were being sent home without evidence-based treatment for their addiction. He organized physicians, policy students, and designers to create the nation’s first campaign named Get Waivered aimed at training emergency physicians to be able to start patients looking for help overcoming their addiction on evidence-based treatment. His work is now featured as the national model at the NIH and NIDA and is now operating at the state level, has been written about in the Boston Globe and NPR, and is helping to transform the emergency department into the front door for opioid addiction recovery treatment nationwide.

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