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Episode 40-Buprenorphine and New Jersey Paramedics: Perfect Together?

The Overrun Podcast

The State of New Jersey, in the throes of an enormous opioid epidemic, has unveiled allowing their Mobile Intensive Care Units (Paramedics) to administer buprenorphine as a part of an optional formulary. Paramedics and EMTs can rescue patients with naloxone, but are we the right avenue to start people toward recovery?