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Addiction Medicine Made Easy | Fighting back against addiction Casey Grover, MD, FACEP, FASAM
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Addiction is killing us. Over 100,000 Americans died of drug overdose in the last year, and over 100,000 Americans died from alcohol use in the last year. We need to include addiction medicine as a part of everyone's practice! We take topics in addiction medicine and break them down into digestible nuggets and clinical pearls that you can use at the bedside. We are trying to create an army of health care providers all over the world who want to fight back against addiction - and we hope you will join us.
*This podcast was previously the Addiction in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care podcast*
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78. Managing Pain Safely
Episode 78. Traditional teaching to medical students about pain management was to give Tylenol, then Advil, then opioids in ever increasing doses without any maximum dose! Turns out that wasn't quite right. In this episode, Dr. Grover and his colleague Dr. Reb Close share their expertise on best practices in pain management, including how to maximize non-opioid and opioid-sparing medication regimens.
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Episode 77 - Using "Targeted" Naltrexone to Reduce Alcohol Use
Naltrexone - a medication used to reduce alcohol consumption - is usually prescribed on a scheduled basis when treating alcohol use disorder. Could prescribing it to be taken only on drinking days work too?? In this episode Dr. Grover reviews a recent study on how "targeted" naltrexone can be used to reduce alcohol use.
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Episode 76 - A Treatment That Reduces Meth Use by 86%!!!
We all know that options to treat stimulant use disorder are limited. In this episode Dr. Grover interviews Dr. Michael Miller, an Addiction Medicine doctor in Indiana who has developed a novel approach to treating stimulant use disorder. In this interview, Dr. Miller describes his novel approach and his outstanding results (Spoiler Alert! - he is seeing an 86% reduction in methamphetamine use in his patients!!!)
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Episode 75 - Opioid Use Disorder during Pregnancy
In this episode we tackle opioid use disorder during pregnancy with OB-GYN Dr. Kenneth Spielvogel. Dr. Grover and Dr. Spielvogel discuss multiple topics including the use of methadone and buprenorphine during pregnancy, overdoses during pregnancy, fentanyl exposure during pregnancy, and breastfeeding while taking buprenorphine.
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BONUS EPISODE - Food, Eating Disorders, and Addictive Food
Dr. Grover was asked to speak at a high school on the topic of food, nutrition, eating disorders, and how ultra processed food can be addictive. He recorded the lecture while giving it - so here it is as a bonus episode.
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Episode 74 - How Does Counseling and Talk Therapy Help Patients with Addiction (Part 2)
We tried to cover counseling and talk therapy as a part of treatment for addiction in a single episode - but it was too big of a topic! This episode is part 2 of Dr. Grover's interview with Andrew Finley, LMFT on the topic of counseling and talk therapy as a part of treatment for addiction.
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