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.
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.
Dr. Capurso is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and practices clinically at the West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital. He attended medical school at Yale, where he received his MD, and where he conducted research in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He stayed at Yale for residency and addiction psychiatry fellowship training. As an educator, Dr. Capurso teaches medical students about addiction treatment and develops the psychiatric curriculum for residents. As a clinician, Dr. Capurso is the medical director of the VA’s Detoxification & Addiction Stabilization Service and the Psychosocial Residential Rehabilitation Program.
