May 6th 2024
Petros Levounis, MD, MA, talks addiction, buprenorphine, his year as president of the APA, and more at the 2024 Annual Meeting.
Reducing Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths: States’ Prevention and Response Efforts
August 19th 2021In this journal club, a medical student and an addiction psychiatrist review a thematic analysis of successful prevention efforts in states with declining rates of opioid-related overdose deaths.
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Setting the Stage for Opioid Addiction Treatment
June 8th 2015Opioid-dependent patients presenting to an emergency department for other medical reasons are more likely to pursue addiction treatment if a specific therapy is initiated during their emergency care stay. What therapy are we talking about?
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Opioid Use Disorder: Update on Diagnosis and Treatment
April 30th 2015While opioid dependence is among the most severe and lethal of addictions, it also has the most effective medication treatments. The authors provide 2 case vignettes and a step-by-step process for clinical decision making.
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Prescribing Opioid Analgesics: Are We Going in the Right Direction?
April 22nd 2015There are probably few health care professionals who are unaware of the concerns about the apparent overprescription of opioids. However, we have had only limited information on how good a job physicians may actually be doing in prescribing these medications.
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