ASWB Masters practice

A patient at a Part 2 substance use treatment program collapses in the waiting room and is taken by ambulance to an emergency department. The emergency physician calls to ask which medications the patient receives. The patient is unconscious. What may the program do?

• ARefuse, because the patient has not signed a consent form
• BDisclose what the emergency requires and document the disclosure
• CDisclose the full record, since the patient's life may be at risk
• DDisclose only after the program director obtains a court order