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Addiction Medicine Made Easy | Fighting back against addiction — 195 episodes
Sober Living Explained
Ozempic Goes to Rehab: GLP-1s for Addiction
The Most Effective Stress Relief You Should Never Use
What Do You Do With the Patient Using Everything? (Rebroadcast)
Ibogaine: A Miracle Cure for Addiction?
Getting Sober Is Hard. Bipolar Disorder Makes It Harder
Different Battlefields, Same Scars: What an Ex-CIA Agent Taught Me About PTSD
Far From Over: We're Still Fighting Stigma
What Is Trauma-Informed Care and How Do I Provide It???
A Psychiatrist Said Bipolar. He Was Wrong. And It Almost Cost Her Everything
A Practical Guide To Psychiatric Medications For Addiction Care (Update from 2025)
What's The Latest With Kratom?
I Don't Have a Drinking Problem. I Drink, I Get Drunk. No Problem.
Sugar: When The Kitchen Cabinet Is Your Drug Dealer
I Get By (And Sober) With A Little Help From My Peers
A New Way to Think About Addiction: The Stress Reducer Loop
Whipped Cream With A Side Of Spinal Cord Damage
Goodbye Benzos, My Old Friend: Benzodiazepine Tapering Done Right
What Happens in Residential Treatment: Inside The Place Rock Bottom Leads To
Why Pushing A Loved One Harder to Get Sober Doesn't Help
An OB Addiction Specialist Explains Why Marijuana Is Not Benign In Pregnancy
BIND: Benzodiazepine Induced Neurological Dysfunction
Straight to the Shot: A New Way to Quit Fentanyl and Start Buprenorphine
Addicted to Toxic Relationships: Trauma, Sex Work, and The Fight for Recovery
What I Told a Room Full of High School Seniors About College Party Culture
You Can Use Hypnosis to Drink Less Alcohol???
Understanding Addiction — For the People Who Love Someone Struggling
Saving Lives: How To Recognize And Reverse An Opioid Overdose
Wait… Weed Does That??? The Cannabis Side Effects Nobody Warned You About
Up All Night: How Drugs, Alcohol, and Recovery Disrupt Sleep—and How to Fix It
Could This Device Change the Future of Addiction Treatment???
How Ketamine Treats Depression, Anxiety, And PTSD
Parents in Recovery: Navigating Sobriety While Raising a Family
Parallel Recovery: What If Helping Your Loved One With Addiction Begins With Healing You?
How Cold Immersion, Breath Work, Yoga, And Meditation Can Build Lasting Sobriety
Quaalude, Black Beauties, and More: A History of Misused Prescriptions
How to Build Emotional Resilience
Wonderful Person, Horrible Disease: What It's Like Being Married To Someone With Addiction
How to Help Someone With Addiction Who Isn't Ready to Change
A Principal’s Playbook For School Drug Prevention
Why Substance Use Looks Different After 65
A Bariatric Surgeon Schools Me On Food Addiction and Weight Loss Surgery
The Brain Science Behind Addiction
Gas Station Heroin and the Loopholes Fueling “Legal Highs” In America
What It’s Really Like To Practice Addiction Medicine
Busting Myths, Building Trust: Communicating with Patients
Dual Diagnosis: Why Treating One Without the Other Never Works
Weight Loss Surgery Doesn't Treat Food Addiction
Stigma 4: When Heroes Need Help
Stigma 3: Mom vs. Addiction - The battle she never signed up for
Stigma 2: Stigma Hurts, Compassion Heals
Stigma 1: The Other Side of Addiction - Finding Light After Darkness
Benzodiazepines - Pills That Sedate but Don't Rehabilitate
When your brain can't let go: Understanding the PTSD-addiction connection
Medical Literature Matters: How Addiction Professionals Keep Learning
Meet Your Inner Mentor (Your Inner Critic Already Knows You) - Anonymous Drama Therapy
Breaking Barriers: Creating Patient-Friendly Addiction Treatment
How To Use Naloxone Like a Pro with Dr. Reb Close (Rebroadcast)
Ketamine: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
When Mental Health Meets Primary Care: Transforming Addiction Treatment
Treating Opioid Withdrawal—With the Ear???
A Deep Dive into Urine Drug Testing
The High Functioning Patient with Addiction
Breaking the Ice: Treating Methamphetamine Use Disorder
What Every Doctor Should Know About Addiction: Buprenorphine, Naltrexone, and More
What I Learned About Addiction from Matt Butler’s Prison Concerts
An Overview of Psychiatric Medication (and How They Can Help Patients with Addiction)
Fentanyl High: A Teen Filmmaker's Fight Against the Opioid Crisis
Sobriety is a Team Sport
These Shots Save Lives - Using Long Acting Injectable Meds for Addiction
How One of My Patients Quit Kratom
Hot Showers and Horror Stories: Scromiting and Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
Can You Overdose on Cannabis? The Answer is Yes (Update from 2023)
Trauma Therapy Explained with Dr. Jessica Cooper
Laughing Gas Addiction Isn't Funny (Update from 2024)
Saving Two Lives: How I Manage Opioid Addiction During Pregnancy
Lessons Learned From the Front Lines of Addiction Medicine
Could N-Acetylcysteine Be the Key to Beating Cannabis Use Disorder?
How I've Come to Understand PTSD In My Practice
Why the Teenage Brain is Wired for Addiction
Stories From My Patients That Teach Me About Addiction
Understanding Trauma: How I Found Out that My Brain Stores Trauma on the Left Side
Assault, Addiction, and Healing from Trauma
Stigma Kills Patients. How We Can Fight Back.
Xylazine - The "Zombie Drug"
Kratom: What Someone Who Uses it (and Loves it) Thinks About it
How A Firefighter Went from Injecting Opioids to Sobriety and Fighting Stigma
What I Learned When I Went Down The DMT Rabbit Hole
How My Friend Paul Got Sober, Slipped Up, and Got Sober Again
A Child Psychiatrist Schools Me on ADHD Meds in the Treatment of Addiction
What I Say to High Schoolers When I Teach About Addiction
The Science on Kratom: Kratom Journal Club (Bonus with CME)
What I Learned When I Talked About Addiction with a Licensed Therapist
Unraveling Addiction: A Story of Fitness, Healing, Strength, and Steroids
Unmasking Trauma: A Brother's Journey Through Pain, Addiction, and Healing
Kratom and the US Opioid Crisis: A Help or a Harm?
Unveiling the Opioid Epidemic: From Big Pharma to Synthetic Threats (Bonus)
Debunking CBD: Does it Really Help with Pain or is it Overhyped?
Unmasking Addiction: Debunking Myths, Understanding Risks, and the Power of Narcan (Bonus)
What I Found When I Went to a Smoke Shop and Bought Kratom...
Inside Addiction Medicine: What We've Learned
Effective Strategies for Talking to Your Kids About Drugs and Alcohol (Rebroadcast)
Buprenorphine's Role in Preventing Opioid Overdoses: A Closer Look
80. High Stakes: The Hidden Heart Risks of Cannabis Use
Bonus - The Art of the Drug Deal (Rebroadcast)
79. Healing on the Streets: Treating Addiction with Street Medicine
78. Managing Pain Safely
Episode 77 - Using "Targeted" Naltrexone to Reduce Alcohol Use
Episode 76 - A Treatment That Reduces Meth Use by 86%!!!
Episode 75 - Opioid Use Disorder during Pregnancy
BONUS EPISODE - Food, Eating Disorders, and Addictive Food
Episode 74 - How Does Counseling and Talk Therapy Help Patients with Addiction (Part 2)
Episode 73 - How to handle the polysubstance use patient
Episode 72 - Cannabis Withdrawal Revisited
Episode 71 - How Does Counseling and Talk Therapy Help Patients with Addiction? (Part 1)
Episode 70 - What drug is coming next in the illicit drug supply?
Episode 69 - Parent Education on How to Talk to Kids About Drugs and Alcohol
Finally! A New Name!
Episode 68 - Fentanyl-laced stimulants
Episode 67 - Recreational Nitrous Oxide Use
Episode 66 - Have you heard of Iso?
Episode 65 – Can parents prevent alcohol use disorder by allowing teens to drink at home?
Episode 64 - The Art of the (Drug) Deal
Episode 63 - Building trust with substance use patients
Episode 62 - How P2P Meth changed everything
Episode 61 - Have you heard of peer support? It's awesome!
Episode 60 - How to actually help patients with Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
Episode 59 - Why Substance Use Navigators are awesome!
Episode 58 - How to Use Naloxone like a Pro
Episode 57 - Have you heard of Phenibut?
Episode 56 - When you prescribe an opioid, who else besides your patient might have an overdose?
Episode 55 - Can you use baclofen to treat alcohol use disorder?
Episode 54 - Do you know enough about urine drug screens to use them effectively?
BONUS EPISODE - A little inspiration
Episode 53 - Is the buprenorphine you prescribe going to end up on the street?
Episode 52 - Talking to kids about drug use
Episode 51 - What's it like having a family history of addiction?
Episode 50 - A Recovery Story, Part 2
Episode 49 - Buprenorphine vs Fentanyl
Episode 48 - A Recovery Story
Episode 47 - What is Kratom?
Episode 46 - Treating Alcohol Use Disorder with Topiramate
Episode 45 - Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
Episode 44 - What is the risk of fentanyl exposure to first responders and what do we do about it?
Episode 43 - Cannabis Toxicity and "Greening Out"
Episode 42 - Delirium Tremens
Episode 41 - How does microdosing buprenorphine work?
Episode 40 - What the heck is Xylazine and how do you treat a Xylazine overdose?
Episode 39 - Are you confused by all the different formulations of buprenorphine? Me too
BONUS EPISODE - A plea to treat Alcohol Use Disorder as well as we do Opiate Use Disorder
Episode 38 - Could you be eligible to be board certified in Addiction Medicine?
Episode 37 - Stimulant Withdrawal
Episode 36 - What labs can you use to assess alcohol use? (follow up to Episode #27)
BONUS EPISODE - The Non-Opioid Management of Renal Colic
Episode 35 - Hallucinogen Intoxication
Episode 34 - An Overview of Methamphetamine Use Disorder
Episode 33 - Methamphetamine Psychosis
Episode 32 - The "Drug-Seeking" Patient and why it's time to retire the term "Drug-Seeking"
Episode 31 - How do mutual support groups and 12 step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous work?
Episode 30 - Buprenorphine After Naloxone Rescue
Episode 29 - Drinking Alcohol + Naltrexone = Cure for Alcohol Use Disorder
Episode 28 - Cannabis Induced Psychosis
Episode 27 - Can you diagnose an alcohol use disorder based on lab tests?
Episode 26 - Can Bupropion and Naltrexone help treat methamphetamine use disorder?
Episode 25 - What is kindling in alcohol withdrawal?
Episode 24 - How to handle buprenorphine in the perioperative setting
Episode 23 - How much do you know about Vaping?
Episode 22 - Illicit Fentanyl
Episode 21 - What's the deal with phenobarbital for alcohol withdrawal?
Episode 20 – A patient story. Getting “well” with opiate use disorder
Episode 19 - The Patient on Methadone for Opiate Use Disorder
Episode 18 - What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
Episode 17 - Buprenorphine precipitated opiate withdrawal
Episode 16 - How stigma hurts patients and what we can do about it
Episode 15.5 - Lit Review - Using High Dose Buprenorphine in the Emergency Department
Episode 15 - An Overview of Alcohol Withdrawal
Episode 14: Cannabis Dispensaries - Who works there and what do they tell patients about cannabis?
Episode 13 - Alcoholic Ketoacidosis
Episode 12 - Medications to prevent relapses on alcohol and reduce alcohol intake (aka Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder)
Episode 11 - Adulterants in street drugs: Does anyone actually know what's in the drugs they use??
Episode 10 - Gabapentin as a treatment for Cannabis Dependence and Withdrawal
Episode 9 - Harm Reduction and how using it in your practice improves your patient care
Episode 8.5 - Lit Review - What is the 1 year mortality for patients after an ED visit for a non-fatal opioid overdose?
Episode 8 - The Neurobiology of the "Addict Brain" (aka why addiction makes people do crazy things)
Episode 7 - Carisoprodol (Soma) Abuse and Withdrawal
Episode 6.5 - Lit Review - How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs
Episode 6 - How to assess the severity of a substance use disorder
Episode 5 - Medications for Smoking Cessation 101
Episode 4.5 - Lit Review - What are patients thinking about after an opioid overdose?
Episode 4 - How to handle benzodiazepine dependence
Episode 3 - What is Cannabis Withdrawal Syndrome?
Episode 2 - Buprenorphine Basics
Episode 1.5 - Lit Review - Will this hospitalized patient develop severe alcohol withdrawal?
Episode 1 - Why Care About Addiction?
Episode 0 - Introduction