The Curbsiders Addiction Medicine Podcast

Integrate motivational interviewing into your busy practice, and learn the basic principles of cognitive behavioral therapy. This episode highlights common psychosocial interventions for individuals with substance use disorders. After this episode, you will feel empowered to connect patients to these evidence-based resources. We’re joined by Dr. Carla Marienfeld, MD from UCSD , @DrMarienfeld who g...

Partner with your patients to address cannabis use disorder. Learn how to talk through someone's motivations for cannabis use, treat cannabis withdrawal, address cannabis use disorder, and the eternal importance of harm reduction in cannabis use. Dr. Deepika Slawek @DeepikaSlawekMD ( Einstein Medicine Bio ) joins us on this can't miss episode!

Challenge stigmatizing terms and level up your patient-centered language! Learn how to create an inviting environment to discuss substance use and substance use disorders (SUDs), how our word choices directly affect patient care and a three-step approach to taking a comprehensive SUD History. Let’s RIP-TEAR it up with our expert, Dr. Jeanette Tetrault from Yale University ( @jtetrault17 ).

With this buprenor-FINE episode, you’ll become a master at office-based treatment of opioid use disorder with buprenorphine. We’ll cover the efficacy of buprenorphine, a guide to starting it, and what to think about when continuing therapy in a person-centered way. We’re joined by Dr Christine Soran, ( UCSF ) the medical director of the oldest buprenorphine clinic in the country - The OBIC in San...

Decrease your anxiety managing sedative-hypnotic use disorders! By the end of this episode, you will have practical tips on how to discuss benzodiazepine use, plan a taper, and support your patient throughout the process. We’re joined by Dr. Ximena Levander,  @XimenaLevander ( OHSU ).

Amp up your learning on stimulant use disorder! We are joined by Dr. Paxton Bach ( @PaxBach ) who is the Co-Medical Director for the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and Director of their Clinical Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program. We discuss commonly used stimulants, how to recognize when someone is “overamping,” different treatment options, and so much more!

Get comfortable treating alcohol use disorder (AUD). In this episode, we discuss the diagnosis of AUD strategies to help patients develop therapeutic goals and options for pharmacotherapy. We are joined for this episode by Dr. Alyssa Peterkin ( BU ), an internal medicine and addiction medicine physician who encourages us to venture into offering pharmacotherapy for AUD as it is vastly undertreated...

Step up harm reduction strategies in your clinical practice! We discuss partnering with patients who use substances and methods to keep patients safe and healthy. Dr. Kim Sue ( @DrKimSue, Yale University ), the National Harm Reduction Coalition Medical Director, joins us. We discuss safer injection practices, stimulants, alcohol, nicotine use, and more!

Master the management of ambulatory alcohol withdrawal! We discuss the pathophysiology of alcohol withdrawal as well as the triage and treatment of this disease in the ambulatory setting. We’re joined by our bird-loving guest Dr. Stephen Holt ( Yale University ), an addiction medicine and internal medicine doc who teaches us a set of practical pearls that you won’t want to miss out on!

Supercharge your knowledge on using methadone for the treatment of opioid use disorder! We discuss treatment goals, and how to start or continue methadone in the hospital.  We’re joined by guest Dr Ruth Potee , addiction medicine physician, full-scope family medicine doc, feminist, and expert composter.  She inspires us to be strong advocates for our patients. 

Curbsiders Addiction Medicine is THE podcast for all things addiction medicine. This series will discuss the ins and outs of caring for patients who have substance use disorders. We want to reduce the stigma around substance use as well as myth-bust and demystify common addiction medicine topics. We use expert interviews to cover core addiction med topics such as harm reduction, stimulant use diso...