Addiction Happens

Addiction Happens covers the basics of what constitutes "addiction," how it is inevitable that patients can get addicted to addictive substances, and how to normalize the concept of addiction with your patients in order to have an open, healthy dialogue with them about tapering off addictive substances.

About "How to Taper Patients Off of Chronic Opioid Therapy":
Doctors may be equipped to prescribe for chronic pain but they are often not given enough opportunities to consider real-time strategies for creating healthy, productive conversations and plans to fight opioid addiction. Dr Anna Lembke's short course, "How to Taper Patients Off of Chronic Opioid Therapy" seeks to remedy this. In a series of short videos, we demonstrate methods for having difficult conversations with opioid dependent/addicted patients, managing the tapering process off opioids, and we explore non-medication alternative therapies such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.

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