Emergency Department-based Opioid Harm Reduction: Moving Physicians From Willing to Doing

This study's objective was to develop and validate a survey tool to assess emergency department physician attitudes, clinical practice, and willingness to perform opiate harm reduction interventions. After surveying physicians, most showed they were willing to provide necessary interventions, while few do perform them. Although there was an increased willingness to perform the interventions, a disparity remains. Suggestions were provided on how to move physician's from being willing to perform interventions to doing them.