Narcan, Opioid Use Disorder, and the Emergency Department: A Candid Conversation with Dr. Scott Weiner

In this episode of The Visible Voices Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Scott Weiner, emergency physician, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and founder of system-wide substance use disorder programming.  Dr. Weiner shares the patient cases that set his life's work in motion, including a fatal overdose on Boston Common that changed how he understood both medicine and advocacy.  Scott addresses the troubling gap in opioid education in American schools, the promise of wearable technology for monitoring patients in recovery, and the real reasons overdose deaths are finally starting to decline. Opioid use disorder is not a moral failure — it is a public health crisis. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. This episode includes real stories from the emergency department, including a fatal overdose. We share these stories because they matter and because they drive change. Please take care of you. Pause and step away at any time and know that you can always come back to the episode.