Compass Opioid Stewardship Coaches Top 5 Podcast

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing semaglutide for OUD, risks of methadone, buprenorphine for pain, and more!  Semaglutide and Opioid Overdose Risk in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Opioid Use Disorder , Published in JAMA Network Open, September 2024 Methadone Deaths: Risk Factors in Pain and Addicted Pop...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing acute care pain management pearls, the impact of an addiction care team on outcomes relating to Drug Use Associated-Infective Endocarditis , and more!  Acute Pain Management Pearls: A Focused Review for the Hospital Clinician , Published in Healthcare, December 2022 MRI-der...

 In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing mortality risk after opioid substitution, virtual reality-based Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enchancement , and more!  Mortality risk during and after opioid substitution treatment:systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies , Published in BMJ Clinical Research,...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing psychedelics for depression, drug overdose death counts provided by the National Vital Statistics System, and more!  Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts , Published in the CDC's National Vital Statistics System, Last Updated August 2024 Long-term efficacy and reduced sid...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing buprenorphine in perioperative settings and in pregnancy, stigma among PCP's, and more!  Higher First 30-Day Dose of Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Is Associated With Decreased Mortality , Published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine, May/June 2024 Effica...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing lessons from Germany in opioid prescribing, the link between childhood adversity and chronic pain in adulthood, acupuncture for methadone dose reduction, and more!  How Germany averted an opioid crisis , Published by NBC New, October 2019 Anxiety, history of childhood adver...

Episode 43 In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing second hand nicotine exposure from vaping, preoperative pharmacogenomic testing, efficacy of GLP-1 receptor agonists in SUD, and more!  Rate of opioid use disorder in adults who received prescription opioid pain therapy-A secondary data analysis , Published in PL...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing mental health needs of patients with chronic pain, data on opioid prescription quantities after cesarean delivery, and more!  Consensus and Controversies Between Pain and Addiction Experts on the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Prescription Opioid Use Disorder , Pu...

In this episode, Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches' Top 5 picks, discussing naloxone for palliative care patients, a source control model for SUD, a lack of benefit seen with acetaminophen as an adjunct agent, and more!  Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain — Misconceptions and Mitigation Strategies , Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Mar...

In this episode, Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches' Top 5 picks, discussing co-occurrence of anxiety and depression in chronic pain patients, telemedicine for OUD, opioid dose conversion data, and more!  Strategies for Reducing Opioid-Overdose Deaths — Lessons from Canada , Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, April 2018 Co-occurrenc...

In this episode, Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches' Top 5 picks, discussing the treatment of OUD, proposed changes to pain classifications, and more!  Case 6-2019: A 29-Year-Old Woman with Nausea, Vomiting, and Diarrhea , Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, February 2019 Extended-Release Injection vs Sublingual Buprenorphine for Opi...

In this episode, Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches' Top 5 picks, discussing injectable buprenorphine, benzodiazepine tapering, advances in the prevention of migraine, and more!  Community-Based Cluster-Randomized Trial to Reduce Opioid Overdose Deaths , Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, June 2024 Extended-Release 7-Day Injectable...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing outpatient alcohol withdrawal, low dose naltrexone for pain, updates on treating trigeminal neuralgia, and more!  Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: Outpatient Management , Published in the American Family Physician, September 2021 Effective Doses of Low-Dose Naltrexone for Chron...

Episode 36 In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing light therapy for chronic migraine, treatment for methamphetamine use disorder, and more!  Effects of oral alcohol administration on heat pain threshold and ratings of supra-threshold stimuli , Published in the Scandinavian Journal of Pain, March 2020 Light Thera...

 In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing the link between smoking and lower back pain, sleep as a treatment for pain, genetic variations associated with acamprosate response, and more!  Smoking, alcohol and coffee consumption and risk of low back pain: a Mendelian randomization study , Published in the European S...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing opioid consumption post-bariatric surgery, topical anesthetics for corneal abrasions, drug related infant mortality, and more!  The effect of bariatric surgery on opioid consumption in patients with obesity: a registry-based cohort study , Published in Surgery for Obesity a...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing alcohol and chronic pain, psychedelics for pain and OUD, and more!  Association between alcohol consumption and chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis , Published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia, April 2022 Prescription Opioid Dose Change Prior to Fatal O...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing SGLT2 inhibitors and false positive urine drug screens, ginger for painful periods, the legal issues with opioid treatment agreements, and more!  SGLT2 Inhibitors and False Positive Toxicology Tests , Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, February 2024 Trends in...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing pain and withdrawal during OUD treatment, reducing alcohol consumption during pregnancy, chronic pain among homecare workers, and more!  Effective Treatments for Opioid Use Disorder — Finding Recovery and Staying Safe , Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Janu...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing fibromyalgia from a patients perspective, treatments for tobacco use disorder, the struggles of primary care providers, and more!  The Plight of Primary Care, Part 2 — ITT Episode 13 , Published in the New England Journal of Medicine's Intention to Treat Podcast Series, Jul...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing low-dose buprenorphine initiation for cancer pain, integrated HCV treatment into OUD care, mindfulness education in waiting rooms, and more!  Buprenorphine Dispensing after Elimination of the Waiver Requirement , Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, April 2024...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing benzodiazepine dependence, endocrine effects of opioids, prevalence of illicit fentanyl use, and more!  Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Geographic Availability of Buprenorphine , Published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. February 2024 Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing long-term use of benzodiazepines, the use of semaglutide in cannabis use disorder, tapentadol, and more!  Long-Term Use of Benzodiazepines and Benzodiazepine-Related Drugs: A Register-Based Danish Cohort Study on Determinants and Risk of Dose Escalation , Published in the A...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing the opioid epidemic, opioid-free anesthesia, buprenorphine misinformation, and more!  A Stat Investigation: The War on Recovery: How the U.S. is Sabotaging it's Best Tools to Prevent Deaths in the Opioid Epidemic Published by STAT, March 2024 Opioid-free versus opioid-spari...

In this episode Dr. Stader and Dr. Bradley summarize and offer key insights for the following Coaches Top 5 picks, discussing the efficacy of antidepressants for chronic back pain, trends in against medical advice (AMA discharges) in patients with OUD, and more!  Understanding Pain Catastrophizing: Putting Pieces Together , Published in Frontier is Psychology, December 2020 Trends in Before Medica...