The Saving Dose

In the fifth episode of The Saving Dose, Dr. John Hsu and William Pedranti go inside opioid use disorder from the ground up: what it actually is, what causes it, why the people most affected by it are being failed by a system that was never designed to treat a chronic disease like a chronic disease, and why the gap between the medications that work and the patients who receive them keeps growing....

In the fourth episode of The Saving Dose, William Pedranti and Kendra Allen continue their conversation on the operational reality inside opioid treatment programs and get into the part of addiction recovery that almost nobody in the industry talks about publicly: what happens after the patient walks out the door, why most of them do not come back, and why the system was never designed to know the...

In the third episode of The Saving Dose, William Pedranti sits down with Kendra Allen to map the full continuum of addiction treatment in America and go inside the operational reality of the clinics trying to deliver it. This is not a conversation about clinical failure. It is a conversation about what happens in the seven days between appointments, why most practices have no visibility into that...

In the second episode of The Saving Dose, John Hsu MD and William Pedranti go deep into the most dangerous misconceptions driving the opioid epidemic, why physicians are afraid to prescribe, what the difference between dependency and addiction actually means clinically, and why America is in its fourth decade of a crisis that has a known solution most patients never receive. This episode covers th...

In the first episode of The Saving Dose, three addiction medicine and behavioral health executives discuss why opioid use disorder treatment is failing patients, what the medication adherence gap actually looks like from inside the clinic, and what it will take to fix it. Topics include MOUD access, buprenorphine barriers, pain management misconceptions, behavioral health revenue challenges, and t...