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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Jun 16, 2024 • 1h 1min
78. Managing Pain Safely
Episode 78. Traditional teaching to medical students about pain management was to give Tylenol, then Advil, then opioids in ever increasing doses without any maximum dose! Turns out that wasn't quite right. In this episode, Dr. Grover and his colleague Dr. Reb Close share their expertise on best practices in pain management, including how to maximize non-opioid and opioid-sparing medication regimens.
Jun 3, 2024 • 16min
Episode 77 - Using "Targeted" Naltrexone to Reduce Alcohol Use
Naltrexone - a medication used to reduce alcohol consumption - is usually prescribed on a scheduled basis when treating alcohol use disorder. Could prescribing it to be taken only on drinking days work too?? In this episode Dr. Grover reviews a recent study on how "targeted" naltrexone can be used to reduce alcohol use.
May 13, 2024 • 45min
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!!!)
May 1, 2024 • 1h 15min
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.
Apr 20, 2024 • 39min
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.
Apr 13, 2024 • 1h 23min
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.
Apr 1, 2024 • 49min
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.
Mar 18, 2024 • 21min
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.
Mar 4, 2024 • 55min
Episode 71 - How Does Counseling and Talk Therapy Help Patients with Addiction? (Part 1)
How much do you know about talk therapy and counseling? How does it work? How does a therapist decide what to talk about? How does one define a successful therapy session? In this episode, Dr. Grover interviews Andrew Finley, LMFT, about how counseling and talk therapy work for patients with addiction. And since it's such a big topic, it will take several episodes to cover.
Feb 25, 2024 • 46min
Episode 70 - What drug is coming next in the illicit drug supply?
Are you familiar with Bromazolam? Carfentanil? Isotonitazene? Flualprazolam? What do all these substances have in common? They are showing up in the illicit drug market, and we'll likely be seeing more of them in the future. Dr. Grover gives an update on what's coming next in the illicit drug supply
