ADHS launches clinician opioid assistance hotline

Arizona has launched one of the nation’s first 24/7 hotlines providing free, real-time consultations for clinicians with complex patients with pain and opioid use disorders.  The first-of-its-kind hotline is staffed by medical experts at the Poison and Drug Information Centers in Arizona.

The new service can assist providers with the management of:

• Patients taking high numbers of morphine milligram equivalents (MME)
• Patients that require an exit strategy from their current opioid regimen (including tapering)
• New patients on multiple controlled substances
• Challenging patients with pain and mental health/substance use comorbidities
• Patients with acute opioid overdose or toxicity
• Patients with acute opioid or benzodiazepine withdrawal
• Patients that require MAT (medication assisted treatment)
• Patients that require local referrals to behavioral health or substance use disorder treatment

Consultations provide tailored, evidence-based, real-time and follow-up services. The number is 1-888-688-4222.