OCTOBER 16, 2018

Plan Partnerships Boost Opioid Safety

By Nikki Kean

Nashville, Tenn.—When Mitchell West, DO, MHA, set out to establish treatment guidelines for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) at Allegheny Health Network in western Pennsylvania, he was shocked by what he found.

“I worked in an outpatient treatment center for five years. I did not expect to see the catastrophic consequences of IV drug use—these were the sickest patients I have seen,” he told attendees of the 2018 Opioid Management Congress. In addition

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