35 Increasing Naloxone Prescriptions Through Electronic Medical Record Best Practice Advisory Alerts

Study Objectives: Overdoses are now the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States with recent increases influenced by multiple factors including the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the most recent overdose deaths, about 75% involved a prescription or illicit opioid. Naloxone can rapidly reverse fatal overdose and evidence shows reduced mortality when naloxone is available in the community. Although emergency physicians are generally willing to prescribe naloxone to patients at risk of opioid overdoses, prescriptions remain uncommon.