MarinHealth Plans Opioid Addiction Program In Emergency Department

MarinHealth Medical Center has received a $126,000 government grant to start a medication assisted treatment program for opioid addiction in its emergency department. Dylan Carney, M.D., emergency physician and assistant medical director of the Marin Health Emergency Department, said one of the main objectives is to change the way practitioners in the emergency department think about addiction. In 2019, there were 165 opioid overdoses in Marin County, California through October, and 11 Marin residents have died of drug overdoses.

In the past, the medical center, formerly known as Marin General Hospital, would treat and stabilize individuals who overdosed . . .