Expanding Prehospital Addiction Care – Part 3

As the crew starts to wind up this topic, the discussion of the process of opioid withdrawal continues including inducing a more intense, or higher, level of withdrawal to help the patient's recovery progression. The guys discuss the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) score, its use and the interpretation of.

KEEPER NOTE: What words should we NOT be using to define these patients with "opiate disease disorder."