Boston Medical Center Responds to Opioid Overdose Epidemic and Public Health Emergency The Boston Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) programs began in 2006 when the Public Health Commission (BPHC), passed a regulation that authorized intranasal naloxone distribution by trained, nonmedical public health workers and EMS personnel under a standing order from Dr. Peter […]
In the past couple of years, we have been working on ways to increase Naloxone distribution in the emergency department – a seemingly perfect match of public health and best clinical care. Project ASSERT is able to distribute rescue kits to patients who are at risk for overdose as well as parts of their social […]
The BMC Emergency Department’ recently published its Spring 2014 Public and Global Health newsletter. It features lots of great work being done at BMC including efforts from Project ASSERT, the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program and the BNI ART Institute! To download, click on the link below: Final 2014 Spring P&GH Newsletter
Project ASSERT has earned a designation into SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), receiving high scores across its review criteria. According to its website, NREPP is “a searchable online registry of mental health and substance abuse interventions that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers. The purpose of this registry is […]
