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👋 Attending Rx Summit this week? Don't miss the chance to connect with Laura Monico, Jodi Bostwick, and Danielle Bellosi live — and hear their breakthrough research on a critical gap in addiction treatment: What happens when a patient has done everything right, gotten into care, and received a prescription — but is blocked from picking that medication up at the pharmacy? Check out their session on Thursday, April 8 at 11:15am.

The work I’ve been part of since joining Boulder Care last August has been the most meaningful of my career. I really believe that the way Boulder designs care—by truly listening to patients—is changing hearts and minds, and it’s been incredibly special to be part of an organization moving the addiction treatment field forward. With that, I’m honored and excited to be representing Boulder as a presenter at Rx Summit in Nashville this week! If you’re attending, I’d love for you to stop by Poster 88 and say hello 👋 I’ll be sharing how Boulder Care’s virtual model for treating OUD is built around patient feedback. We incorporate integrated peer support, non-punitive treatment, low-threshold care, flexible transitions, wraparound support, and patient-informed messaging—and we’re seeing the impact in our outcomes, with retention rates more than 2x national benchmarks! I’m energized to connect, exchange ideas, and hear your perspectives. Hope to see you there! #RxSummit

🚨 Boulder is taking the main stage at #RxSummit2026 next week! Where to find us: 🎤 Thursday, April 9 @ 11:15am: “Prescribed but not picked up” — Laura Monico, Jodi Bostwick & Danielle Bellosi are presenting new research on how to solve the critical last mile of buprenorphine access. 📌 All week: “Rebuilding the Frame” — Elizabeth Bambury, MPH will share a poster presentation with brand new Boulder insight into patient-informed, relationship-based models for addiction care. Scaling addiction treatment means designing care that patients can actually access and breaking down every obstacle — so folks can stay in recovery for the long term. 👉 Heading to Nashville? Let’s connect. 👉 Not attending? Follow along here; we’ll be sharing key takeaways. #AddictionMedicine #RxSummit #BehavioralHealth #HealthPolicy #DigitalHealth

🔊 If your withdrawal protocol is “power through,” it’s not a protocol. In too many settings, withdrawal is treated like a rite of passage. That’s not care. It’s abandonment. Patients do better — transition to MAT more comfortably, stay in care, and have healthier outcomes — when they have: ▶️ Clear education about what to expect ▶️ Multiple options for transitioning to buprenorphine ▶️ Support to manage symptoms like sleep, nausea, anxiety, and restlessness ▶️ Peers + clinicians checking in and adjusting care in real time This is the kind of medicine digital health leaders should be building: measurable, human, and operationally excellent.

👋 Ohio-licensed MDs looking for meaningful clinical work in addiction medicine Boulder Care is hiring collaborating physicians — part time, fully remote — to support our care team! You’re a fit if you have: 📍 Active Ohio medical license 🩺 Experience managing patients on buprenorphine for OUD 🤝 Background in collaborative care models 💙 Harm reduction values + deep alignment with our mission: transforming addiction care Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/exv4H3Sf Know someone great? Tag them or share this post. #AddictionMedicine #OUD #HarmReduction #Telehealth #OhioHealthcare

🎉 Stephanie Strong has been named to Inc. Magazine's 2026 Female Founders 500. Stephanie built Boulder Care to be there at the moment someone decides: I’m ready. Today, Boulder offers a new model for addiction care, one that is actually equipped to meet the scale and urgency of the opioid crisis: 🔹 Life-saving medication 🔹 Same-day access to care 🔹 Deeply human support And every single day, Stephanie is not only leading Boulder with compassion and resilience. She's also leading the entire addiction industry forward — towards evidence, towards innovation, and towards access for all. We’re grateful to Inc. for this recognition, and even more grateful to our team, patients, and partners who make this work possible.

Withdrawal isn’t the body failing. It’s the body adapting. 🧠 After opioids, the nervous system has to relearn regulation. Anxiety, insomnia, restlessness? Common. Expected. Treatable. Patients deserve care that stops reinforcing shame — and starts reinforcing options: education, shared decision-making, and tailored treatment pathways that balance speed, comfort, and safety.

📌 Addiction policy is complex. Addiction care shouldn’t be. Last week, our team learned from Regina LaBelle — former Acting Director, White House ONDCP, now with Georgetown University School of Health's Center on Addiction Policy and O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. She joined Boulder's monthly ECHO to connect the dots between policy, payment, and what it takes to expand access to treatment in the real world. ECHO is a cornerstone of Boulder's clinical culture. It's where our entire team can step back from day-to-day care to: 🔎 engage with new research + ideas in addiction medicine 🎓 learn from top voices shaping the field 🤝 collaborate toward better patient care Huge thanks to Regina for sharing her expertise — helping us keep building solutions that meet the realities of policy, payment, and people’s lives. 💙

Too often, “getting into recovery” is framed as enduring withdrawal. That framing drives fear, delays care, and increases risk. Our POV: Withdrawal should be anticipated, explained, and actively treated — like any other predictable clinical transition. That means: 1️⃣ Evidence-based medication 2️⃣ Multiple transition paths  3️⃣ Real-time support — not “good luck, see you after.” At Boulder, innovation is about building care for the real world. And when it comes to withdrawal, that looks like supporting our patients before, during, and after the transition to buprenorphine. The result? Fear loosens its grip, people can start building something new, and  recovery can last.

“In diabetes, we don’t measure success as having perfect blood glucose. Success in addiction recovery is so much greater than abstinence.” Our Head of Medical Affairs Dr. Ayesha Appa has spent her career working directly with patients — and advocating for and operationalizing the care models and metrics that actually make a difference for people with addiction. This means looking at outcomes like: 👉 Reduced number of overdoses 👉 Adherence to life-saving medications like buprenorphine  👉 Reduced acute care utilization 👉 Meeting life goals — like going back to school or getting a driver’s license 👉 Building trusted relationships with care providers that support long term wellness All of these metrics translate to lasting success — for individuals, families, and health systems. When we move away from an abstinence only model, the entire field does better.