PsychiatryVideos + slide PDFs2025
Oakstone Addiction Medicine for Non-Specialists 2025 — screen, treat and refer substance use with confidence
Most patients with a substance use disorder are seen by clinicians who are not addiction specialists, often for something else entirely. Oakstone Addiction Medicine for Non-Specialists 2025 is written for them: 28 lectures with slide PDFs, released on 30 April 2025 and led by Antoine Douaihy, MD, with 20 speakers in all. It moves from neurobiology and screening through each major substance to pain, pregnancy, adolescents, older adults and newer territory such as gambling and technology addiction, with stigma and racial disparities addressed directly.
- 28lectures
- 20speakers
- PDFslides included
- 2025release
What you’ll be able to do
- Screen for and diagnose substance use disorders in routine visits
- Manage intoxication, withdrawal and perioperative care safely
- Start treatment for alcohol, opioid, stimulant, cannabis and tobacco use disorders
- Balance analgesia and risk in acute and chronic pain with co-existing addiction
- Use motivational interviewing and harm reduction, and support affected families
- Recognise gambling and technology addiction as treatable conditions
Inside the course
Understanding addiction
An overview, the neurobiology and epidemiology of SUD, screening and diagnosis, and the pharmacology of commonly used substances.
Substance by substance
Dedicated lectures on alcohol, stimulants (including future therapies), opioids, benzodiazepines, cannabis and tobacco, preceded by practical guidance on intoxication and withdrawal.
Oakstone Addiction Medicine for Non-Specialists: special groups
Perinatal care, adolescent pharmacotherapy, older adults, serious illness, HIV and hepatitis C complications, co-occurring psychiatric disorders and racial disparities in treatment.
Behavioural tools and emerging addictions
Brief intervention, harm reduction, family support and mindfulness sit alongside gambling, technology use and safe prescribing for chronic pain.
Built for
- Primary care physicians, NPs and PAsFront-line management without needing a specialist referral for every case.
- Hospitalists, surgeons and pain cliniciansWithdrawal, perioperative and pain content for inpatients with SUD.
- General psychiatrists and psychologistsIntegrated care for co-occurring mental illness and addiction.
Faculty & syllabus
Lectures and speakers 28 lectures
- Antoine Douaihy, MD — Addiction – An Overview
- Jody Glance, MD — Neurobiological Aspects of Substance Use Disorder
- Antoine Douaihy, MD — The Epidemiology of Substance Use Disorders
- Antoine Douaihy, MD — Screening, Evaluation, and Diagnosis of Substance Use Disorders
- Sharon Connor, MD, and Cassandra Kruse, MD — The Pharmacology of Substances of Use
- Megha Patel, PharmD, BCPS — Management of Intoxication, Withdrawal, and Perioperative Care in Individuals with Substance Use Disorders
- Julie Kmiec, DO — Alcohol Use Disorder
- Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt, MD, PhD — Stimulant Use Disorder (StUD) – Treatment Overview and Future Therapies
- Julie Kmiec, DO — Opioid Use Disorder
- Tae Woo Park, MD — Benzodiazepine Use and Misuse
- Thersilla Oberbarnscheidt, MD — Cannabis Use Disorder
- Antoine Douaihy, MD — Tobacco Use Disorder
- Amanda Price, MD — Chronic Pain and Substance Use Disorders
- Julie Wilson Childers, MD — Acute Pain and Substance Use Disorder
- Cassandra Boness, PhD — Brief Interventions and Motivational Interviewing for Substance Use Disorders
- Dennis Daley, PhD — Helping Patients with Substance Use Disorders and Co-occurring Psychiatric Disorders (CODs)
- David Loveland, PhD — The Use of Harm Reduction Strategies with Substance Use Disorders
- Jody Glance, MD — Perinatal Substance Use Disorders
- Duncan Clark, MD, PhD — Pharmacotherapy for Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders
- Katie F. Jones, MD — Substance Use Disorders in Older Individuals
- Antoine Douaihy, MD — Healthcare and Racial Disparities in Addiction Treatment
- Jordi Blanch, MD, PhD — Medical Complications of Substance Use Disorders including HIV and HCV
- Varad Deshmukh, MD — Pain and Opioid Complexity in Individuals with Serious Illness
- Kavita Fischer, MD — The Rise of Gambling Disorder – Significance, Assessment, and Treatment in an Era of Exploding Access
- Hector Colon-Rivera, MD — Technology Addiction
- Dennis Daley, PhD — Helping Family Members Affected by Substance Use Disorders
- Antoine Douaihy, MD — Mindfulness-based Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
- James R. Latronica, DO, DFASAM — Safe and Efficacious Prescribing for Chronic Pain
Before you buy
Is Oakstone’s addiction programme a board review?
No. It is a practical course for generalists; candidates for the addiction medicine boards may prefer a dedicated review such as the PassMachine lectures (MS-7449).
How long are the addiction lectures?
Running times and total file size are not published for this 2025 release.
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Videos + slide PDFs |
|---|---|
| Released | 30 April 2025 |
| Contents | 28 lectures · 20 speakers |
| Publisher | Oakstone |
| Department | Psychiatry |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |


