Emergency Room – Addiction and Mental Health

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We know that addiction and other mental health problems occur at the same time. It makes it harder to overcome your challenges, but it’s not impossible. Your counselor, therapist and prescriber will want to work with you on all of aspects of your mental health challenges. This is often why urine drug screens are requested in the ER. It may not change what the ER doc does for you, but can help jumpstart your mental health and substance issue treatment. If you have lost all hope or feel like you can’t go on in the world, if you feel like you would harm or kill yourself, please tell someone. You can go back to get help in the ER. We want to help you here. You can also call +1 800-273-8255 at all hours of the day for help.