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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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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Episode 73 - How to handle the polysubstance use patient
Ok...so you have a patient using nicotine, cannabis, alcohol, and methamphetamine. What substance should you focus on helping the patient stop first? Or should the patient stop everything at once? In this episode Dr. Grover interviews Addiction Medicine physician Dr. Lee Goldman on the topic of how to treat patients who use multiple substances.
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Episode 72 - Cannabis Withdrawal Revisited
In this episode, we take a second look at cannabis withdrawal. Dr. Grover covered this topic on a previous episode, but as cannabis use is very common, and many people don't realize that cannabis has a withdrawal syndrome - it needed another look. This episode is an up to date review of cannabis withdrawal, including options for treatment.
Customer Reviews
This is a great and relevant topic!
I have known Dr. Grover since he was a UCLA med student. It is awesome to find this podcast and know your limitless energy and dedication to patient care is being broadcasted to the world. And I still love getting your Christmas cards my friend!
Great commentary on recent research papers
I’m surprised this podcast only has 24 ratings since the commentary is excellent
Great podcast
Speaks to the literature and is practical for use in my EM practice.
Thanks for highlighting such an important subject!