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This is Lindsay Smith, Rogers. Today, the importance of starting treatment for opioid addiction in the emergency department.

Ariana Campbell is an emergency department and addiction medicine physician assistant at

Marshall Medical Center in Placerville, California. She's also the co-founder of the Bridge

Center at the Public Health Institute, a program that helps emergency departments around the

country build addiction treatment programs.

She speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how this work has evolved over the last decade to become the standard of care.

Let's listen.

Arianna Campbell, thank you so much for joining me today on Public Health On Call.

How are you?

I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me.

I want to talk to you about an effort that I know you have personally been deeply involved with,

which is getting emergency departments to provide more treatment for people with opioid addiction.

Yeah, I mean, this has been a big goal for a long time just to have treatment for opioid

use disorder as a tool in my toolkit.

And a lot of this stems from feeling somewhat helpless or just not having those tools for

17 years of my 25 year career and then making practice change, which, I mean, quite frankly, wasn't that

challenging and providing this as just a part of practice. My daily routine when I see a patient

just as if they had high blood pressure, and I would address that, if there's any indications

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