
#336 Updates in Addiction Medicine: Live from SGIM
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Is There a Problem With Abstinence?
i think we need to stop thinking of it that way, an i think our medical council can literally focus on where are they, what's actually going on in their lives? There's a large percentage of americans who qualified for the diagnosis of alcohol used to sorter in their twenties or early thirties who don't later because they took on life responsibilities. At johns hopkins, they reported that after multi disciplinary ation and a clear evidence that the individual was planning to commit to abstinence, they justid a retrospective comparison of the people whom they did early transplant with versus regular time ing. This is a paper reported in jama surgery wan. To take a look. Yes
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