“Behind the Evidence" is the addiction medicine podcast of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, and a project of the Center’s free bimonthly newsletter Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence (AODH). This episode was recorded 15-16 March 2024 and features six short interviews with presenters at the first-annual Together for Hope Boston Addiction Conference:

• Miriam Komaromy, MD: Medical Director, Grayken Center for Addiction
• The Civil Right to MOUD. Ruchi Shah, DO, Boston Medical Center, and Amelia Caramadre, JD, MPH, Kaplan and Grady LLC
• Decreasing Risk and Stigma Among Patients Who Use Drugs: Implementation of an ED-Based Harm Reduction Program. Karri Weisenthal, MD, Boston Medical Center
• Recovering Safety: A Pilot Study of a Women's Empowerment Group for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence with Substance Use Disorders. Amanda Sedgewick, DO, McLean Hospital
• How can we make addiction treatment more appealing, effective, and equitable for Black patients? Corinne Beaugard, PhD, MSW, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Boston Medical Center
• Substance use and pain curriculum innovation: establishing a student-faculty partnership for lasting curricular change. Rory Vu Mather, MS, Harvard Medical School

Hosts: Honora L. Englander, MD and Marc R. Larochelle, MD

Production: Raquel Silveira, MBA

Editing: Casy Calver, PhD

Music and cover art: Mary Tomanovich, MA

Miriam Komaromy, MD is the Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction, and co-Editor-in-Chief of AODH, together with David Fiellin, MD

Learn more about AODH and subscribe for free at www.aodhealth.org

“Behind the Evidence” is supported by the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. It is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered medical advice. The views expressed here are our own, and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or the authors of the articles we review. All patient information has been modified to protect their identities.

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“Behind the Evidence” is the addiction medicine podcast of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, and a project of the Center’s free bimonthly newsletter Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence (AODH). This episode was recorded 16 January 2024 and features an interview with Marie Jauffret-Roustide, PhD on her recent publication in Addiction: “Drug consumption rooms are effective to reduce at-risk practices associated with HIV/HCV infections among people who inject drugs: Results from the COSINUS cohort study.” Click here to read AODH’s summary of Dr Jauffret-Roustide’s article.

Hosts: Honora L. Englander, MD and Marc R. Larochelle, MD

Production: Raquel Silveira, MBA

Editing: Casy Calver, PhD

Music and cover art: Mary Tomanovich, MA

Miriam Komaromy, MD is the Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction, and co-Editor-in-Chief of AODH, together with David Fiellin, MD

Learn more about AODH and subscribe for free at www.aodhealth.org

“Behind the Evidence” is supported by the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. It is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered medical advice. The views expressed here are our own, and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or the authors of the articles we review. All patient information has been modified to protect their identities.

“Behind the Evidence” is the addiction medicine podcast of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, and a project of the Center’s free bimonthly newsletter Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence (AODH).

This episode was recorded 11 July 2023 and features an interview with Dr Sumeet Singh-Tan, DO on her recent publication in Journal of General Internal Medicine: “Addiction Consult Service and Inpatient Outcomes Among Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder.” Click here to read AODH’s summary of Dr Singh-Tan’s recent publication.

Hosts: Honora L. Englander, MD and Marc R. Larochelle, MD

Production: Raquel Silveira, MBA

Editing: Casy Calver, PhD

Music and cover art: Mary Tomanovich, MA

Miriam Komaromy, MD is the Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction, and co-Editor-in-Chief of AODH, together with David Fiellin, MD

Learn more about AODH and subscribe for free at www.aodhealth.org

“Behind the Evidence” is supported by the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. It is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered medical advice. The views expressed here are our own, and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or the authors of the articles we review. All patient information has been modified to protect their identities.

“Behind the Evidence” is the addiction medicine podcast of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, and a project of the Center’s free bimonthly newsletter Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence (AODH).

This episode was recorded 18 May 2023 and features an interview with Dr Noa Krawczyk, PhD on her recent publication in The International Journal of Drug Policy: “Has the treatment gap for opioid use disorder narrowed in the U.S.?: A yearly assessment from 2010 to 2019.” Click here to read AODH’s summary of Dr Krawczyk’s recent publication.

Learn more about the Liberating Methadone conference.

Read about the minimally disruptive OUD framework.

Hosts: Honora L. Englander, MD and Marc R. Larochelle, MD

Production: Raquel Silveira

Editing: Casy Calver, PhD

Music and cover art: Mary Tomanovich, MA

Miriam Komaromy, MD is the Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction, and co-Editor-in-Chief of AODH, together with David Fiellin, MD

Learn more about AODH and subscribe for free at www.aodhealth.org

“Behind the Evidence” is supported by the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. It is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered medical advice. The views expressed here are our own, and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or the authors of the articles we review. All patient information has been modified to protect their identities.

“Behind the Evidence” is the addiction medicine podcast of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, and a project of the Center’s free bimonthly newsletter Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence (AODH). This episode was recorded 12 April 2023 and features an interview with Dr Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, DrPH (director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) on his recent publication in JAMA Psychiatry: “Receipt of Telehealth Services, Receipt and Retention of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, and Medically Treated Overdose Among Medicare Beneficiaries Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Click here to read AODH’s summary of Dr Jones’s recent publication.

Hosts: Honora L. Englander, MD and Marc R. Larochelle, MD

Production: Raquel Silveira

Editing: Casy Calver, PhD

Music and cover art: Mary Tomanovich, MA

Miriam Komaromy, MD is the Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction, and co-Editor-in-Chief of AODH, together with David Fiellin, MD

Learn more about AODH and subscribe for free at www.aodhealth.org

“Behind the Evidence” is supported by the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. It is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered medical advice. The views expressed here are our own, and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or the authors of the articles we review. All patient information has been modified to protect their identities.

“Behind the Evidence” is the addiction medicine podcast of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, and a project of the Center’s free bimonthly newsletter Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence (AODH).

This episode was recorded 24 March 2023 and features an interview with Dr Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD on her recent research and work on racial and ethnic differences in substance use treatment. Click here to read AODH’s summary of Dr Jordan’s recent publication.

Hosts: Honora L. Englander, MD and Marc R. Larochelle, MD

Production: Raquel Silveira

Editing: Casy Calver, PhD

Music and cover art: Mary Tomanovich, MA

Miriam Komaromy, MD is the Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction, and co-Editor-in-Chief of AODH, together with David Fiellin, MD

Learn more about AODH and subscribe for free at www.aodhealth.org

“Behind the Evidence” is supported by the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. It is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered medical advice. The views expressed here are our own, and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or the authors of the articles we review. All patient information has been modified to protect their identities.

“Behind the Evidence” is the addiction medicine podcast of the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center, and a project of the Center’s free bimonthly newsletter Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence (AODH). This episode was recorded 11 November 2022 and features an interview with Jessica Taylor, MD on her recent research and work on a low-threshold methadone bridge clinic and linkage to opioid use disorder treatment. Read a summary of Dr Taylor’s recent publication in AODH.

Hosts: Honora L. Englander, MD and Marc R. Larochelle, MD

Production: Raquel Silveira

Editing: Casy Calver, PhD

Music and cover art: Mary Tomanovich, MA

Miriam Komaromy, MD is the Medical Director of the Grayken Center for Addiction, and co-Editor-in-Chief of AODH, together with David Fiellin, MD

Learn more about AODH and subscribe for free at www.aodhealth.org

“Behind the Evidence” is supported by the Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center. It is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be considered medical advice. The views expressed here are our own, and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or the authors of the articles we review. All patient information has been modified to protect their identities.