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Items Tagged with 'withdrawal'

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Expert Q&A

Navigating Cannabis Withdrawal

January 1, 2025
Alan J. Budney, PhD
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of Biomedical Data Science; Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH.

Dr. Budney has served as a scientific advisor for Jazz Pharmaceuticals and Indivior Inc. Relevant financial relationships listed for the author have been mitigated.

Cannabis withdrawal is a largely underappreciated phenomenon that nonetheless interferes with many patients’ ability to stop using cannabis. Dr. Budney discusses some of the symptomatology of cannabis withdrawal and reviews how to discuss it with our patients.


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Managing Withdrawal From Multiple Substances

January 1, 2025
Darius Rastegar, MD
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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F77DAC3D-1C61-47C4-8BAB-51075F046EEA.jpegDarius Rastegar, MD 

Associate professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. 

Dr. Rastegar has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Substance use disorders are highly comorbid with one another and it is therefore common to have patients presenting for care withdrawing from multiple substances at one time. Here, Dr. Rastegar discusses how to assess patients with multiple withdrawal syndromes and how to treat them.


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Alcohol Withdrawal: What to Watch For on the Psychiatric Inpatient Unit

January 31, 2024
Caridad Ponce Martinez, MD, FAPA, FASAM
From The Carlat Hospital Psychiatry Report
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Assistant professor of psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA.

Dr. Ponce Martinez has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Dr. Ponce Martinez highlights the need to identify and manage alcohol withdrawal in psychiatric settings, underscoring the use of the CIWA-Ar scale for monitoring symptom progression. While benzodiazepines remain the primary treatment, she reviews alternative treatment strategies and tells us which patients are so high risk that they must be transferred to a medical unit for care.


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RESEARCH UPDATE

Is Ibogaine Safe for Opioid Detox?

January 30, 2023
Richard Moldawsky, MD
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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Richard Moldawsky, MD. Dr. Moldawsky has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Ibogaine is being promoted as a natural and safe way to detox from
opioids. Researchers here find that ibogaine is not quite as benign as some might believe.


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EXPERT Q&A

Managing Alcohol Withdrawal in the Emergency Department

January 30, 2023
Brian Fuehrlein, MD, PhD
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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Addiction psychiatrist. Associate professor of psychiatry, Yale University. Director of the psychiatric emergency department at VA Connecticut. West Haven, CT.

Dr. Fuehrlein has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.

Alcohol withdrawal is among the most commonly encountered scenarios managed by psychiatrists in the ED. Here, Dr. Fuehrlein discusses the natural history of alcohol withdrawal, how best to assess withdrawal risk, and choose between treatment options.


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RESEARCH UPDATE

Phenobarbital vs Lorazepam in Alcohol Withdrawal

October 31, 2022
Clayton Barnes, MD
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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Barnes Clayton, MD. Dr. Barnes, author of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Barbiturates and benzodiazepines are both commonly used for alcohol detoxification. But how do they compare to one another? Here, researchers found some intriguing benefits of phenobarbital.


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10 Psychopharm Commandments: Med Withdrawal

September 26, 2022
Chris Aiken, MD and Kellie Newsome, PMHNP

When to stop meds quickly, and when to do it slowly, in #2 of our 10 Commandment series.


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Treating Agitation in ICU Patients with AUD?

May 1, 2022
Jedidiah Perdue, MD, MPH
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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Jedidiah Perdue, MD. Dr. Perdue has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Patients with AUD who are hospitalized in ICUs have high rates of agitation. Researchers here investigate whether treatment with baclofen might improve outcomes.


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Nicotine Patch for Cannabis Withdrawal?

July 3, 2021
John O’Neal, MD.
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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John O’Neal, MD. Dr. O’Neal has disclosed no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
As cannabis use becomes more widespread, treaters will inevitably see increases in patients reporting symptoms of cannabis withdrawal. Researchers in this study investigated whether a nicotine patch might help mitigate some of these symptoms. Results were not particularly promising, and should only be considered for patients who also use tobacco.
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Management of Opioid Withdrawal in the Emergency Setting

March 19, 2021
Rehan Aziz, MD.
From The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report
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Rehan Aziz, MD. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Aziz has disclosed that he has no relevant financial or other interests in any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.
An emergency department visit can be a “reachable moment” for people with unhealthy opioid use. Here, we review pharmacologic and harm-reduction strategies for use in those settings—and how to advocate for your patients when consulting with emergency clinicians.
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