Ethan Cowan, Jeanmarie Perrone, James Dziura, E Jennifer Edelman, Kathryn Hawk, Andrew Herring, Ryan McCormack, Alexandra Murphy, Manali Phadke, David A Fiellin, Gail D'Onofrio
BACKGROUND: Opioid overdose deaths in 2021 were the highest ever, driven by fentanyl and polysubstance use. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to characterize drug use, assessed by urine drug screens (UDSs), in patients with untreated opioid use disorder (OUD) presenting to 28 emergency departments (EDs) nationally and by region. METHODS: We analyzed UDSs from patients enrolled in the CTN-0099 ED-INNOVATION (Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine Validation) trial between July 12, 2020 and March 9, 2022...
October 2023: Journal of Emergency Medicine