The Addiction Files: An Addiction Medicine Podcast

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.   

 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.   

"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.   

"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.   

"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.   

"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.   

"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.   

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.   
 
 

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. 

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.