Dr. Emily Pasman stops by the show to talk about her recent article Nonabstinence Among US Adults in Recovery From an Alcohol or Other Drug Problem. She discusses the findings from her study as well as the potential limitations of using a solely abstinence-focused treatment and recovery model for addiction care. Emily Pasman is a licensed social worker and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan Center for the Study of Drugs, Alcohol, Smoking, and Health. Her research aims to ...
Jul 11, 2025•20 min•Ep. 52
Dr. Jarratt Pytell stops by the show to discuss his recent article featured in the Journal of Addiction Medicine titled Post Void Residuals: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, Patient Outcomes, and How Not to Get Fooled by Urine Toxicology Results - Article Link: Void Residuals: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, Patient Outcomes, and How Not to Get Fooled by Urine Toxicology Results...
Jun 26, 2025•25 min•Ep. 50
In this episode, Regina LaBelle stops by to talk about her recent article featured in the Journal of Addiction Medicine titled, The First 100 Days: The Trump Administration and Changes to Addiction Policy. In this episode, Regina discusses structural, budgetary and personnel, and data collection changes that have occurred in the last 100 days and the potential impact on addiction policy. Regina LaBelle is the director of the Center on Addiction Policy at the O’Neill Institute for National and Gl...
Jun 12, 2025•20 min•Ep. 49
Recorded live at the 56th Annual ASAM Conference in Denver, Dr. Marcela Smid sits down to discuss article submissions and peer review, as well as demystifying the scientific publishing process for new authors.
May 29, 2025•13 min•Ep. 48
In this episode, Dr. Charles Schauberger discusses the difficulties clinicians face when identifying and treating inhalant use in pregnant patients, and the findings from his recent article Systematic Review of Obstetric and Child Outcomes of Prenatal Exposure to Inhalants in the Context of a Use Disorder. Dr. Charles Schauberger lives and practices in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He is board-certified in both Obstetrics and Addiction Medicine, and has developed a specialized pregnancy addiction clinic...
May 16, 2025•11 min•Ep. 47
In this episode, Dr. Mishka Terplan discusses initiation of MAUD for pregnant patients, and the findings from his recent article Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder Among Birthing People With an Alcohol-related Diagnosis. Dr. Mishka Terplan is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and in addiction medicine. His primary clinical, research, public health, and advocacy interests lie along the intersections of reproductive and behavioral health. He is Medical Director at Friends Researc...
May 01, 2025•26 min•Ep. 46
In this episode, Dr. Ryan Alexander joins the show to discuss findings from his new study Withdrawal Signs and Symptoms Among Patients Positive for Fentanyl With and Without Xylazine. Dr. Ryan Alexander is an addiction medicine specialist and is currently the medical director for substance use services at McNabb Center in Knoxville, TN and is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. He completed medical school at the DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicin...
Apr 17, 2025•13 min•Ep. 44
In this episode, Dr. Ekaterina Pivovarova joins host Shawn McNeil to discuss the findings from her new article Collaborating With Jails to Provide Community-based Medication for Opioid Use Disorder: Qualitative Perspectives From MOUD Treatment Providers. Dr. Pivovarova is a licensed clinical psychologist and an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. - Article link: Collaborating With Jails to Provide C...
Mar 20, 2025•28 min•Ep. 42
In this episode, Dr. Christine Neeb sits down to discuss integrated treatment programs and how this model could potentially be adapted to other populations with SUD. Dr. Neeb is a Visiting Associate Professor and the Director of Integrated Primary Care and Addiction in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz. She is board certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine and focuses on novel strategies to expand access to treatment of substance use diso...
Jan 30, 2025•14 min•Ep. 41
Podcast host Shawn McNiel, MD, is joined by Michael Incze, MD, MSEd to discuss his new article Expert Panel Consensus of the Effectiveness and Implementation of Models to Support Posthospitalization Care Transitions for People With Substance Use Disorders which aimed to establish a hierarchy of existing SUD care transition models in 2 categories-effectiveness and implementation-using an expert consensus approach. Dr. Michael Incze is a primary care physician in the Division of General Internal M...
Dec 13, 2024•23 min•Ep. 40
In this episode of Beyond The Abstract, Dr. Joji Suzuki stops by the show to discuss his recent co-authored review on GLP-1 agonists and their potential role in addiction treatment. Dr. Suzuki is the founding Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is board certified in both Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, and has continued to mai...
Nov 04, 2024•24 min•Ep. 39
Host Shawn McNeil, MD, is joined by Michelle Lofwall, MD, DFAPA, DFASAM, a professor in the Department of Behavioral Science and Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky and Medical Director of UK’s Robert Straus and First Bridge Clinics, which provide comprehensive OUD treatment within the UK Center on Drug and Alcohol Research. Dr. Lofwall and her co-authors examined the relationship between the dose in the early stages of treatment and the subsequent risk of death and found some surprising re...
Oct 08, 2024•20 min•Ep. 38
Podcast host Shawn McNiel, MD, is joined by Noa Krawczyk, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and an author of Initiatives to Support the Transition of Patients With Substance Use Disorders From Acute Care to Community-based Services Among a National Sample of Nonprofit Hospitals. Dr. Krawczyk discusses the gap in transition of acute care to community care services among most US hospitals, efforts to increase acute care intervent...
Jun 06, 2024•16 min•Ep. 37
Xylazine Use Among People Who Inject Drugs, Philadelphia 2022 Host Shawn McNiel, MD, is joined by Marissa Tan, DO, an Epidemiology Intelligence Service (EIS) Fellow for the Center of Disease Control and Prevention through the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Dr. Tan and her co-authors sought to help clinicians better identify individuals at risk and inform patients and clinicians about xylazine risk factors. Dr. Tan discusses their findings from National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Surv...
Apr 24, 2024•14 min•Ep. 36
Podcast host Shawn McNeil, MD, is joined by Joshua Sharfstein, MD, and Sara Whaley, MPH, from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who delve into the strategic allocation of $56 billion from opioid litigation settlements. As they discuss the principles for effective fund utilization, they highlight opportunities for addiction medicine specialists to play a pivotal role in guiding state and local governments to spend these resources wisely to save lives. Journal of Addiction Medicine, ...
Jan 23, 2024•26 min•Ep. 35
In episode 28 of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, host Shawn McNeil, MD is joined my Ashish Thakrar, MD, MS, an addiction medicine specialist and Assistant Professor of Medicine with the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Thakrar discusses the outcome of his research, which aimed to determine whether fentanyl concentration is associated with the severity of opioid withdrawal. Article Link: https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/abstract/2023/07000/association_of_urine_fentanyl_co...
Dec 12, 2023•13 min•Ep. 34
The language used to describe people with substance use disorder impacts stigma and influences clinical decision-making. Host Dr. Shawn McNeil, MD discusses with Dr. Scott G. Weiner, MD the presence of stigmatizing language in clinical notes and detects patient- and provider-level differences. ----more---- Based on original research published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine July/August 2023 - Volume 17 - Issue 4 The Incidence and Disparities in Use of Stigmatizing Language in Clinical Notes...
Oct 18, 2023•11 min•Ep. 33
The language used to describe people with substance use disorder impacts stigma and influences clinical decision-making. Host Dr. Shawn McNeil, MD discusses with Dr. Scott G. Weiner, MD the presence of stigmatizing language in clinical notes and detects patient- and provider-level differences. Based on original research published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine July/August 2023 - Volume 17 - Issue 4 The Incidence and Disparities in Use of Stigmatizing Language in Clinical Notes for Patients...
Oct 18, 2023•12 min•Ep. 33
Examining the Primary Care Experience of Patients With Opioid Use Disorder: A Qualitative Study In episode 26 of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, host Shawn McNeil, MD, is joined by Michael Incze, MD, MSEd. Dr. Incze is a primary care physician at the University of Utah Health Division of General Internal Medicine. He is board certified in internal health and addiction medicine. Dr. Incze will discuss the advantages of primary care-based SUD treatment, focusing on both the perspective of...
Aug 16, 2023•18 min•Ep. 32
Meet JAM Editor-in-Chief, David A. Fiellin, MD, FASAM Dr. Fiellin is an internist, board certified in addiction medicine. He is professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and Public Health at Yale School of Public Health; vice chief of Faculty Affairs for the Department of Internal Medicine’s Section of General Internal Medicine; and serves as the inaugural director of the Program in Addiction Medicine at Yale. Dr. Fiellin has focused his scholarly work on improving...
Jul 10, 2023•14 min•Ep. 31
In episode twenty-four of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, host Shawn McNeil, MD is joined by Dr. Jed Barash, a Neurologist from Massachusetts. In his paper, Dr. Barash and his colleagues discuss using an existing syndromic surveillance system to monitor for possible cases of opioid-associated amnestic syndrome in the state of Massachusetts. Article: LINK Guest Twitter: @JedBarash...
Aug 16, 2022•18 min•Ep. 30
In episode twenty two of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, host Shawn McNeil, MD, is joined by Amy Kennedy, MD, MS. Dr. Kennedy is an Acting Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and Director of GMS Addiction Medicine Program at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System. In her paper, Dr. Kennedy discusses barriers and facilitators of the prescription of HIV preexposure prophylaxis to high-risk injection drug users by buprenorphine prescribers. Journal of Addiction Me...
Apr 14, 2022•13 min•Ep. 22
February 14, 2022 In episode twenty-three of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, host Shawn McNeil, MD is joined by Catalina Lopez-Quintero, MD, PhD, MPH. Dr. Lopez-Quintero is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Florida. In her paper, Dr. Lopez-Quintero discusses racial-ethnic differences in reasons for misuse of prescription medications among a nationally representative sample of US adults....
Feb 17, 2022•15 min•Ep. 29
Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract (Episode 21). Host Shawn McNeil, MD, is joined by Simeon Kimmel, MD, who discusses a trend of referral rejections for post-acute medical care among patients with substance use disorders and patients receiving opioid agonist treatment Dr. Kimmel (@simkimmel) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Attending Physician at Boston Medical Center. Journal of Addiction Medicine, January/February 2021, Rejection of Patient...
Aug 31, 2021•12 min•Ep. 21
In episode 20 of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, we are joined by Tami Mark, PhD. She is a Senior Fellow of Behavioral Health Financing and Quality Measurement for RTI International. Dr. Mark discusses patient placement criteria for addiction treatment and multidimensional assessments, which was published in the March/April 2021 issue of Journal of Addiction Medicine. Article: LINK...
May 30, 2021•10 min•Ep. 20
In episode 19 of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, we are joined by MacKenzie Peltier, PhD. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. In her paper, Dr. Peltier discusses sex-specific vulnerabilities observed among individuals with opioid use disorder.
Apr 29, 2021•12 min•Ep. 19
Journal of Addiction Medicine Journal of Addiction Medicine. 14(5):401-408, September/October 2020 In episode eighteen of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, we are joined by Kimberly Spence, MD. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. In her paper, Dr. Spence discusses the benefits of treating neonates with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS) on the mother-baby unit rather than admitting them to the NICU....
Feb 02, 2021•10 min•Ep. 18
Journal of Addiction Medicine In episode seventeen of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, we are joined by Kathleen Carroll, PhD. She is the Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. In her paper, Dr. Carroll discusses the feasibility of implementing computer-based treatments for substance use disorders in primary care settings.
Feb 02, 2021•14 min•Season 3Ep. 17
In episode sixteen of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, we are joined by Itai Danovitch, MD, MBA. He is the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In his paper, Dr. Danovitch discusses some of the challenges facing the study of opioid overdose events in the hospital setting. To learn more, click here ....
Apr 16, 2020•13 min•Season 3Ep. 16
In episode fifteen of Addiction Medicine: Beyond the Abstract, we are joined by Dr. Tricia Wright, MD, MS, FACOG, DFASAM. She is a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California San Francisco. In her recent commentary, Dr. Wright discusses some of the challenges facing women in opioid treatment programs and the need for the provision of reproductive healthcare to this population. To learn more, click here ....
Jan 23, 2020•9 min•Season 2Ep. 15
