Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract

In this episode, Dr. Nicolas Garel joins the podcast to discuss findings from his new article in the September/October issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine titled Increased Risks of Major Cardiac Adverse Events in Stimulant Use Disorder as Compared With Other Substance Use Disorders: A Propensity-score Matching Cohort Study.

Dr. Nicolas Garel is a psychiatrist and clinician-scientist at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM). He is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Université de Montréal and adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Garel completed his medical degree at the Université de Montréal, followed by his psychiatry residency and clinician-scientist fellowship at McGill University, and later pursued advanced training in research and addiction medicine at Stanford University. His research program focuses on innovative interventions for treatment-resistant mood disorders and substance use disorders.

 

Article Link: Increased Risks of Major Cardiac Adverse Events in Stimulant Use Disorder as Compared With Other Substance Use Disorders: A Propensity-score Matching Cohort Study

In this episode, Dr. Blythe Bynum joins the show to discuss her new article titled Navigating Choices: Pregnancy Options Counseling Experiences in Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder, featured in the November/December issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Blythe Bynum is an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a board certified OBGYN with fellowship training in Complex Family Planning. 

 

Article Link: Navigating Choices: Pregnancy Options Counseling Experiences in Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder

In this episode, Dr. Bradley Stein joins the show to discuss findings from his new study titled Medicaid Unwinding: Association With New and Ending Buprenorphine Treatment Episodes, featured in the September/October issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine.

Dr. Bradley Stein is a practicing physician and senior physician policy researcher at RAND. His research career has focused on improving access to, quality of, and outcomes from care of individuals with mental health and substance use disorders being treated in community settings. For two decades, Dr. Stein has studied the opioid crisis, serving as principal investigator for numerous federally and privately funded studies. He has published multiple peer-reviewed articles related to studies of opioid use disorder treatment, harm reduction, and the effects of state and federal policies, and he has provided Congressional testimony related to his research on multiple occasions. And his work has been covered by a range of media outlets including the Economist, Washington Post, and New York Times.

 

Article Link: Medicaid Unwinding: Association With New and Ending Buprenorphine Treatment Episodes

Guest Editorial: Medicaid Unwinding May Have Substantially Disrupted Buprenorphine Treatment

In this episode, Dr. Vinit Patel sits down to discuss his new article Non-medical Mephentermine Use: A Systematic Review of Literature, as well as what exactly mephentermine is, why and how it is currently being used in non-medical settings specifically in India and South Asia, and some of the contributing factors associated with geographic disparities in non-medical mephentermine use.

 

Article Link: Non-medical Mephentermine Use: A Systematic Review of Literature

Dr. Jennifer McNeely stops by the show to discuss her new article Medication for Opioid Use Disorder for Hospitalized Patients at Six New York City Public Hospitals with an Addiction Consult Service.

 

Article Link: Medication for Opioid Use Disorder for Hospitalized Patients at Six New York City Public Hospitals with an Addiction Consult Service