Summary: This week we are again looking at the opioid crisis, but this time from the perspective of an emergency room physician. Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS is Physician-in Chief of Emergency Services at Yale-New Haven Hospital; she and her colleagues published a <a href="http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2279713" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">randomized controlled trial in JAMA in April 2015 looking at an intervention initiating suboxone treatment for patients with substance use disorders in the ED</a>. Gail is Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University and is internationally known for her work in substance use disorders, women’s cardiovascular health, and mentoring physician scientists in research careers, and she is a founding board member of the American Board of Addiction Medicine.<br> We talk about her perspective on the opioid epidemic as an ED physician; her RCT; how people could set up a similar program in their local ED and community; and her thoughts on ED utilization for primary care complaints, which is the subject of a <a href="http://www.mass.gov/anf/budget-taxes-and-procurement/oversight-agencies/health-policy-commission/publications/hpc-datapoints.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recently issued report</a> from the <a href="http://www.mass.gov/anf/budget-taxes-and-procurement/oversight-agencies/health-policy-commission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Massachusetts Health Policy Commission</a>.<br> Please rate and review us on iTunes or Stitcher and share us on social media. Tweet us your thoughts @RoSpodcast and check out our Facebook page at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems</a>. Or, you can email us at <a href="mailto:contact@rospod.org">contact@rospod.org</a>. We’d love to hear from you.<br>
