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Founded by Joshua Lynch, senior physician with UBMD Emergency Medicine, New York MATTERS works to provide efficient buprenorphine training to emergency physicians and create linkages between the hospital and substance use treatment programs. The program helps to widely expand access to high quality addiction care across New York State, helping to save lives in emergencies.

The program began as Buffalo MATTERS, as UBMD physicians were trying to find a better way to treat patients who came to local emergency departments in withdrawal. New York MATTERS is currently available through the emergency departments of 17 hospitals, including all Kaleida Health, Catholic Health, and Erie County Medical Center facilities, throughout the eight counties of Western New York.

Support from the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) has allowed the program to expand across New York State and increase the utilization of buprenorphine in emergency departments.