Trauma-Informed Care (Nov/Dec)

Integrating Trauma-Informed Care into Addiction Treatment

Trauma-informed care is a treatment approach that is gaining traction in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including substance use disorders. Dr. Bartholow describes the underpinnings of trauma-informed care and reviews ways to integrate this approach into the treatment of patients with addiction.

Office-Based Opioid Treatment

Some providers may be reluctant to treat patients with opioid use disorders with MOUD, especially in a busy primary care setting, fearing that these patients are “too complex.” In this observational study, investigators found that patients on MOUD are not all that different from everyone else.

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.

Treating Alcohol Use Disorder: A Fact Book (2023)
All the tools and information needed to assess and treat your patients who are struggling with...
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General Psychiatry
Using SAMe In Clinical Practice with Garrett Rossi, MD
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Addiction Treatment
Supervised Drug Consumption Sites
Once controversial, research clearly shows the benefit of these sites, and they have started opening in the United States.
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