SB 365: Put Buprenorphine in emergency departments

SB 365: Put Buprenorphine in emergency departments

Proposed Connecticut bill SB 365, which had a public hearing earlier this month and is undergoing review by the Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis, would require emergency departments to offer buprenorphine to patients with opioid use disorder. I am an emergency medicine doctor who works in addiction medicine, and while I wish we didn’t need a law to get doctors to treat opioid use disorder like any other emergency, I a…