Addiction in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care Casey Grover, MD, FACEP

If you don't have a Substance Use Navigator (SUN) at your hospital, you need one! They are awesome! In this episode Dr. Grover speaks with Austin, a Substance Use Navigator, who shares his experience taking care of patients with substance use. Spoiler alert! Substance Use Navigators do incredible work!

Naloxone saves lives! In this episode, Addiction Medicine and Emergency Medicine physician Dr. Reb Close joins Dr. Grover to discuss naloxone - how to use it, how to get it into the hands of patients, and how to distribute it in the community.

Have you heard of Phenibut? Did you know that it can be bought online as an unregulated supplement and yet regular use causes dependence? Any idea how to manage Phenibut withdrawal? In this episode we review the literature on Phenibut, including Phenibut toxicity and withdrawal.

In this episode we review the risk of having opioids in the home. As in – when you prescribe an opioid to a patient – what is the risk to the other people and family members in that patient’s home?

Have you heard about using baclofen for alcohol use disorder? Does it work? How do you dose it? What are the contraindications? In this episode we do an evidence based review of the use of baclofen to treat alcohol use disorder

So...how much do you know about urine drug screens? Can selegiline cause a false + for meth? Can quinolones cause a false + for opioids? Can putting visine in urine cause a false negative? What should you do if you think you've gotten a false positive result on a urine drug screen. In this episode - we tackle all these questions and more