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VIDEO: Practice pearls for treating opiate dependence


 

AT ACP INTERNAL MEDICINE 2014

ORLANDO — What should you do when you have a patient who is opiate dependent, but is hospitalized for an unrelated medical reason? What should you do at discharge? And how effective are the available pharmacotherapies for addiction?

Dr. Jeffrey H. Samet, chief of general internal medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, shared a few clinical pearls in this video interview.

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