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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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
Feb 12, 2024 • 52min
Episode 69 - Parent Education on How to Talk to Kids About Drugs and Alcohol
Dr. Grover was asked to speak at a high school to parents on how to talk to kids about drugs and alcohol - and this episode is a recording of that lecture. Dr. Grover reviews how to talk to kids about substance use in general, as well as how to talk to kids who are actively using substances. Pardon the raspy voice - Dr. Grover is getting over pneumonia :)
Feb 3, 2024 • 5min
Finally! A New Name!
We finally came up with a new and better name for the podcast! Addiction in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care is now Addiction Medicine Made Easy. Dr. Grover shares his thoughts on the why behind the name change.
Jan 29, 2024 • 16min
Episode 68 - Fentanyl-laced stimulants
We all know that the illicit drug supply is full of contaminants, some more dangerous than others. I am seeing, in my practice, more of my patients who use stimulants test positive for fentanyl. In this episode, we review a study that analyzes specimens of meth and cocaine to see how often they are laced with fentanyl. Spoiler alert...it's pretty common :(
Jan 18, 2024 • 18min
Episode 67 - Recreational Nitrous Oxide Use
Do your patients use whippets? Have they ever mentioned that they use nitrous? Not quite sure what we're talking about? In this episode we look at recreational use of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas or whippets.
Dec 26, 2023 • 14min
Episode 66 - Have you heard of Iso?
Have you heard of the drug Iso? Is it isofentanyl? Or maybe it's isotonitazene? Or is it just fentanyl cut with who knows what? In this episode we discuss the drug being sold as "Iso" - and try to figure out what's in it.
