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Emergency Room – Addiction

March 14, 2021
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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 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 need to talk with someone, you can call +1 800-273-8255 at all hours of the day for help. For addiction, you can call +1 800-662-4357. Before you left the ER, someone may have asked if you felt like harming yourself. You may have said no, but thoughts and feelings change. If you have lost all hope or feel like you can’t go on in the world, or 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. You can also call +1 800-273-8255 at all hours of the day for help. Your ER physician may have discharged you with anxiety medicine like Clonidine, or hydroxizine. Typically, addictive medicines like benzodiazepines, such as Adavan or Xanax, are avoided. Your team may have prescribed a short course of psychiatric medications that you’re already taking, but you’ll need to follow up within about a week to arrange for continuation of any medicine that you’ve run out of.

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