Gifford Health Care is expanding access to medications for opioid-use disorder by making Sublocade—a long-acting injectable form of buprenorphine—available 24/7 through both its emergency department and inpatient unit. According to Gifford’s addiction medicine team, Gifford is currently the only hospital in Vermont offering Sublocade initiation in the emergency department. Sublocade is a once-monthly injection used to treat opioid use disorder. …
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