Weekly Infusion Podcast
1) An Underused Treatment and the Government’s Response to the Opioid Crisis- Ep 16-17
Today we address the use of Naltrexone as a treatment option for addiction and examine the Government’s response to the Opioid Crisis. Experts include Harvard professors, Dr. John Kelly and Dr. Berth...Show More
An Underused Treatment and the Government’s Response to the Opioid Crisis- Ep 16-17
18:57 | Jun 17th, 2019
2) How Do We Solve the Opioid Problem? - Ep 15
Professors Dr. John Kelly, Dr. Anna Lembke and Dr. Bertha Madras plus best-selling author of Beautiful Boy, David Sheff join @drdrew this week as we focus on steps that could be taken to address the o...Show More
3) Suboxone – Miracle or Menace? - EP 14
Suboxone: Miracle or Menace? This week’s installment tackles medication assisted therapy, and specifically the use of Suboxone to treat the disease of addiction. There are arguments both for and ag...Show More
4) Mixing Opioids and Benzodiazepines- EP 12 - 13
This week’s installment explores the physicians’ role in the current opioids crisis and explains why mixing opioids and benzodiazepines is such a lethal combination. Our superstar panel of experts in...Show More
5) The Current Opioids Crisis -EP 11
This installment examines the drug companies’ role in the current opioids crisis. Led by the billionaire Sackler Family, Purdue Pharma used marketing, advertising and questionable tactics to encourag...Show More
6) Methadone: A Cautionary Tale - Ep 10
Dr. Robert DuPont, former White House Drug Chief (under Nixon), joins us this week to talk about Methadone maintenance therapy as a treatment for addiction. He shares his thoughts about harm reductio...Show More
7) Addiction and Its Effects EP-09
Dr. Anna Lembke of Stanford University and recovered addict Mike Catherwood are this week’s guests. This episode addresses the processes that occur in the brain when an addiction takes hold. Find ou...Show More
8) Opium: The 60s, 70s and 80s. EP 08
This week’s experts are “The Age of Addiction” author, Dr. David Courtwright, Former Nixon Drug Chief, Dr. Robert Dupont and Harvard Professor, Dr. Bertha Madras Methadone was becoming a popular withd...Show More
9) Who Is Responsible for Treating the Addicts? EP 7
With doctors forbidden from treating the addicts they had created, this population began resorting to unlawful activities to acquire drugs. WWII interrupted the opium trade, making it easier for the ...Show More
10) Addiction “Cures” of the Late 19th Century EP 6
Drug historian and author of The Age of Addiction, Dr. David Courtwright, joins us to talk about some of the “addiction cures” that became popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Show More