Sudbury paramedics, hospital roll out new approach to opioid overdose calls – CBC

First responders set to have more tools to help patients manage painful withdrawal symptoms

Oct 17, 2024

Greater Sudbury’s paramedical services and the city’s hospital, Health Sciences North are partnering up to offer more options to people with opioid use disorders.

They will soon launch a new pathway for patients that involves offering suboxone in the field and transportation to the hospital’s addiction services unit instead of the emergency room.

Suboxone is a medication that helps reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms.

With a patient’s consent, it could be administered after one has received naloxone, a life-saving opioid overdose reversing drug.

Kevin struggles with an opioid use disorder and lives downtown Sudbury. CBC is not using his full name because of the stigma around drug use.

Sudbury paramedics, hospital roll out new approach to opioid overdose calls – CBC

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