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What’s on Tap: A Review of Best Practices and Novel Treatment Regimens for Inpatient Management of Acute Alcohol Withdrawal
July 1, 2025
The 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health demonstrated that approximately 10% of the U.S. population meets the diagnostic criteria for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Additionally, one in eight...
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No Addiction Medicine Service? No Problem! Things You Need to Know to Care for Patients with Substance Use Disorders
July 1, 2025
Hospitalists frequently encounter patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), yet many institutions lack dedicated addiction medicine services. As opioid-related hospitalizations and overdose...
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Addiction Consultation and Medications for Substance Use Disorders Associated with Reduced 30-Day Readmission Rates
June 2, 2025
Clinical question: In patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD), do addiction consultations or medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and alcohol use disorder (MAUD)...
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MOUD and Behavioral Health Interventions after Nonfatal Drug Overdose
May 1, 2025
Clinical question: How often are medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), naloxone, and behavioral health services prescribed after a nonfatal drug overdose, and what is the association between...
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Illicit Medetomidine Use with Fentanyl
January 1, 2025
Medetomidine is a non-opioid veterinary anesthetic drug and a synthetic alpha-2-adrenoceptor agonist that is not approved for human use. Increasingly, it’s being used with illicitly manufactured...
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Initiation of Medications for AUD Prior to Discharge Leads to Lower Rates of Return to Hospital
December 2, 2024
linical question: How does the initiation of medications for alcohol use disorder (AUD) at discharge affect 30-day post-discharge outcomes? Background: AUD is highly prevalent (affecting...
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Opioid Prescribing and Outcomes in Patients with SCD Post-2016 CDC Guideline
November 1, 2024
Dr. Klubnick Clinical question: Did the 2016 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain change opioid prescribing practices and...
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“First You Take a Drink, Then the Drink Takes a Drink, Then the Drink Takes You”
October 1, 2024
Substance use disorders in physicians The title of this article, a quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald, illustrates the experience of alcohol use disorder. Although physicians are comfortable recognizing...
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Opioid Use Disorders in Adolescents
July 1, 2024
Dr. Trope, a pediatric hospitalist at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., and an affiliated clinical instructor at the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University...
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Inpatient Management of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
July 1, 2024
This session was a high-yield overview of the management of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) presented by Dr. South, an addiction medicine physician who treats patients with...