The Addiction Files: An Addiction Medicine Podcast
Darlene Petersen, MD and Paula Donnelly Cook, MD are board certified addiction medicine and family medicine physicians providing evidence based education, clinical pearls and resources to physicians, residents and students while striving to destigmatize the treatment of addiction in our medical culture and save lives. Tune in to learn about the latest treatments for all things addiction. Join us as we conduct expert interviews, review clinical pearls and best practices and discuss the latest updates in addiction medicine. No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Episodes
Episodes
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Medications for Alcohol Use Disorders by Dr. Paula Cook and Dr. Darlene Petersen. Just stop drinking is not a discharge plan. Medication management for long term treatment of alcohol use disorder.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Managing Opioid Use Disorder In the Middle of a Pandemic
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Managing Opioid Use Disorders in the Middle of a Pandemic "Time to Address the Big Purple Gorilla in the Room" by Dr. Paula Cook and Dr. Darlene Petersen. Pearls for televisits, monitoring unique to opioid use disorders.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Identifying Opioid Use Disorders in Everyday Practice ”The Other Pandemic”
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
"The Other Pandemic" by Dr. Paula Cook and Dr. Darlene Petersen. First in our four part series. Opioid Use disorder, how to diagnosis it, how to talk to your patients about it, how you do you begin an initial outpatient intake for Opioid Use Disorder.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
”Buprenorphine/Naloxone Induction”
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
"Buprenorphine/Naloxone Induction" by Dr. Paula Cook and Dr. Darlene Petersen. A primer on outpatient and inpatient induction onto buprenorphine/naloxone.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
”Monitoring Opioid Use Disorder”
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
"Monitoring Opioid Use Disorder" by Dr. Paula Cook and Dr. Darlene Petersen. Maintenance, preventing diversion, and coping with difficult behaviors. Best practices and clinical pearls.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
”To Taper or Not To Taper” Tapering Buprenorphine/Naloxone
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
Sunday Apr 04, 2021
"To Taper or Not To Taper" Tapering Buprenorphine/Naloxone by Dr. Darlene Petersen and Dr. Paula Cook.
Tune in for a great discussion on when, how and if you should taper a patient off their maintenance dose of buprenorphine/naloxone.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
"We Need to Talk About Meth"
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
"We Need to Talk About Meth" Diagnosis and Treatment of Methamphetamine Use Disorder by Dr. Paula Cook and Dr. Darlene Petersen.
Recognize it, address it and treatment options for emergency and outpatient settings.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Monday May 03, 2021
"Benzophobia" Recognize and Treat Benzodiazepine Dependence
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
Recognize and treat benzodiazepine dependence and withdrawal. Tune in to learn the mechanism of action, withdrawal symptoms and treatment options.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Kratom "You can buy what...at your local smoke shop?"
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Tuesday May 18, 2021
Dr. Paula Cook and Dr. Darlene Petersen discuss use and abuse of Kratom. Tune in for a fascinating discussion about it's origin, effects, and regulations.
No explicit language but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Journal review of AA and 12 Step Facilitation Treatments
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
This is first in our series of journal article reviews on addiction topics. We discuss the results of this large Cochrane review by Kelly et al.
"Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-Step Facilitation Treatments for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Distillation of a 2020 Cochrane Review for Clinicians and Policy Makers"
Learn the history of Alcoholics Anonymous, basic principles and the science supporting use of Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-step facilitation.
No explicit language, but this podcast discusses the abuse and treatment of legal and illegal drugs and may not be appropriate for all listeners.
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