Addiction Medicine Made Easy | Fighting back against addiction
Casey Grover, MD, FACEP, FASAM
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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May 18, 2021 • 37min
Episode 2 - Buprenorphine Basics
Taking on a huge topic in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care - Buprenorphine! A medication that saves lives but can be very intimidating when you first start using it due to how it works in the body. Dr. Casey Grover breaks down the basics so that you can be ready to use buprenorphine successfully on your next shift.
May 10, 2021 • 20min
Episode 1.5 - Lit Review - Will this hospitalized patient develop severe alcohol withdrawal?
A review of the paper by Evan Wood et al in JAMA 2018: "Will this hospitalized patient develop severe alcohol withdrawal"We discuss a brief overview of alcohol withdrawal, and what a JAMA Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review says on which hospitalized patients will develop severe alcohol withdrawal. We also talk about trying to predict which patients who present to the hospital in alcohol withdrawal will go on to develop severe alcohol withdrawal vs mild or moderate withdrawal.
May 4, 2021 • 18min
Episode 1 - Why Care About Addiction?
How big of a problem is substance use? Is substance use a problem for patients in the acute care setting? Is treatment for substance use effective in the acute care setting, particularly the Emergency Department?Dr. Casey Grover provides an evidence-based overview of why we should - as healthcare providers - all care about substance use disorders.
May 4, 2021 • 5min
Episode 0 - Introduction
An introduction to the Addiction in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care PodcastWho am I? Why does this topic matter? How is this podcast going to work?
