The Experts Speak - An Educational Service of the Florida Psychiatric Society - Podcast

Extended Quantities Of Take Home Opioid Agonists in Opioid Disorder Treatment.

Tara Gomes, epidemiologist in Ontario, Canada, speaks to enlightening research that larger quantities of take home Buprenorphine and methadone, and as such are multi-day dose packets, can be safe and…

Sun 05 Jun 2022

Violence, School Shooting, Etc.

A forensic psychologist gives insight into many cases in which he examined people who committed deadly violence. This includes young teenager offenders as well. His data and opinions come from a mix…

Sun 05 Jun 2022

Gun Violence! Insights

Bill Durston, MD, emergency room physician and former US Marine marksman, gives a necessary overview of gun violence statistics and his thoughts on how to reduce the suffering.

Sat 04 Jun 2022

Emergency Room Approaches and Protocols For Substance Abusers.

Steve Keen, M.D., gives a very detailed discussion of his real-time, on-going emergency room program, with specifics on how to rapidly stabilize, start medication assisted treatment, give psychosocia…

Sat 14 May 2022

Harm Reduction Strategies With Opiate Abusers

Journalist, and former opiate abuser Maia Szalavitz, defines harm reduction as keeping people from getting hurt rather than stopping them from getting high, that needle exchange encourages treatment,…

Fri 22 Apr 2022

The Strong Benefits Of Suboxone Use During Incarceration

Elizabeth Evans, PhD, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, reports that giving Suboxone to jailed opiate using prisoners significantly reduced legal recidivism and other …

Sat 16 Apr 2022

Changes In Psychotherapy’s Focus Because Of Covid.

Roz Malmaud, PhD, and Andy Rosen, PhD, note that patients are now focusing more on the pre-Covid, usual problems. Both discuss, however, issues with telemedicine’s legal and insurance matters, being …

Sun 10 Apr 2022

Strong Benefits Because Of Suboxone Use During Incarceration

Elizabeth Evans, PhD, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, reports that giving Suboxone to jailed opiate using prisoners significantly reduced legal recidivism and other …

Sat 09 Apr 2022

Segmented Sleep -- A New Framework For An Old Pattern

Roger Ekirch, PhD, a historian at Virginia Tech, on our different sleep patterns that were normal before the industrial revolution. A fascinating look at sleep patterns, the first and second sleeps,…

Tue 22 Mar 2022

Balanced Pain Management

Lynn Webster, M.D., discusses issues of over and under use of pain medications, his research on dosing and response issues, the critical psychological components in pain management, the correct use o…

Sat 26 Feb 2022

Opiate Abuse & Overdose In The Elderly

Lori Ann Post, Ph.D., describes the dramatic recent increase in overdose deaths in this group, gender and other demographics, causes, interventions, and the on-going studies to better define and redu…

Thu 10 Feb 2022

ERAS: Effective Techniques Enhancing Recovery and Better Controlling Peri-operative Pain.

Luke Elms, M.D., straightforwardly addresses ERAS’s (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) beneficial medical and psychological strategies for compassionate pain control, of faster recovery with fewer com…

Thu 27 Jan 2022

Covid Updates - The Variants, The Vaccines, The New Pills.

Larry Bush, M.D., from Florida, explains mutations, monoclonal antibodies, vaccine history and use, boosters, B cells and T cells, and the safe use of the potentially game-changing arrivals of the Pf…

Sun 02 Jan 2022

Physicians In Recovery - Giving Them Jobs

Steve Chambers, M.D, will hire these physicians to help them return to a fuller and productive life. He talks of the joy, pitfalls, rules, approaches, and real gifts evolving from these opportunities…

Sat 11 Dec 2021

Psychological Support To Patients With Cancer

Darci McNally, M.S.W., Director of Support at the Lynn Cancer Institute in Florida, speaks of how they address patients with cancer, the emotional needs, the psychological fatigue, different interven…

Sun 28 Nov 2021

Attention Deficit Disorder

Ludmila de Faria, psychiatrist, conveys her approach to explaining and treating this disorder, its historical and biological origins, the diagnostic nuances, and the necessary interaction of the medi…

Sun 14 Nov 2021

New Approaches To The Perioperative Use Of Buprenorphine

Lynn Kohan, M.D., an anesthesiologist, speaks to the attitudes towards, and the effectiveness and strategies of, using buprenorphine to obtain pain and psychological relief in both treated and untrea…

Sat 13 Nov 2021

The Benefits Of The More Aggressive Use Of Buprenorphine In The Emergency Room

Andrew Herring, M.D., and Arianna Campbell, P.A., outline, give history, and reflect on opioid using people presenting to an ER, of how this technique better engages patients and gives more rapid sym…

Sat 06 Nov 2021

Hospice And The Covid Challenge.

Christine McMichael, executive director of the Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation of Massachusetts, speaks of the hospice mandate despite the Covid world, and how, with commitment and resilience,…

Sun 24 Oct 2021

Working With The Psychological And Social Realities Of Climate Change

Gary Belkin, M.D., psychiatrist, and former Deputy Commissioner of the NYC Health Department, on why he sees the present climate changes as so extraordinarily urgent and critical, and how communities…