The Curbsiders Addiction Medicine Podcast

Carolyn Chan, Shawn Cohen, Kenny Morford, Natalie Stahl

curbsidersaddictionmed@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

A clinically focused addiction medicine mini-series that brings substance use disorder (SUD) experts into practical, practice-changing conversations for clinicians. Ideal booking value if you can credibly speak to diagnosis, assessment, and treatment across SUDs—especially opioid withdrawal and stimulant use disorder—in hospital and outpatient settings.

Metrics

Episodes: 36

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 22.7k subscribers

Instagram: 28.0k followers

Contact Information

curbsidersaddictionmed@gmail.com

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Host

Carolyn Chan - Co-host and showrunner for the series focused on caring for patients with substance use disorders (SUD), featuring expert interviews on diagnosis, assessment, and treatment. The show also promotes ...

Shawn Cohen - Co-host for the series focused on addiction medicine practice knowledge for clinicians, covering how to diagnose, assess, and treat a wide range of substance use disorders. Credited as writer/produ...

Kenny Morford - Listed as one of the doctors hosting the mini-series covering diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of substance use disorders.

Natalie Stahl - Listed as one of the doctors hosting the mini-series covering diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of substance use disorders.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Addiction medicine experts (often physicians) with academic/clinical leadership roles; frequently affiliated with major universities or public health systems and able to teach diagnosis/assessment/treatment approaches suitable for CME.
Required Achievements:  
Clinical or academic leadership in addiction medicine or substance use care, Expertise supporting practice-aligned guidance for diagnosis and treatment, Institutional role related to substance use and health (e.g., center director)

Recent Guest Discussions

Maggie Lowenstein - Hospital Addiction Medicine—methadone Dose Confirmations/missed Doses And Implications Of Medetomidine In The Drug Supply For Withdrawal Management.

Phillip Coffin - Methamphetamine Use Disorder Treatment—pharmacologic Options, Harm Reduction, Contingency Management, And Patient Monitoring/support.

Ashish Thakrar - Opioid Withdrawal Management In The Hospital—methadone Vs Buprenorphine Decisions, Adjunct Medications, Short-acting Opioid Use, And Buprenorphine Precipitated Withdrawal.

Recent Topics

Addiction, Substance Use Disorders, Opioids, Withdrawal, Methadone

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Curbsiders Addiction Medicine Podcast
:

S3 Ep24: #528 Hospital Addiction Medicine 3.0 with Dr. Maggie Lowenstein

June 08, 2026

Become the Medetomi-Dean of AdmissionsStep up your hospital addiction medicine game by learning to troubleshoot methadone dose confirmations/missed doses and understanding how medetomidine’s emergency in the drug supply is impacting patients and withdrawal management. We’re joined by Dr Maggie Lowenstein (University of Pennsylvania)Claim CME for this episode at curbsiders.vcuhealth.org!By listening to this episode and completing CME, this can be used to count towards the new DEA 8-hr requirem...

S2 Ep23: #498 Opioid Withdrawal with Dr. Ashish Thakrar

November 17, 2025

Grow your management tools for opioid withdrawal in the hospital. Investigate how to decide between methadone and buprenorphine, additional medications to manage symptoms and how and when to use short-acting opioids for management of withdrawal. We’re joined by Ashish Thakrar, MD at the University of Pennsylvania. Claim CME for this episode at curbsiders.vcuhealth.org!By listening to this episode and completing CME, this can be used to count towards the new DEA 8-hr requirement on substance u...

S2 Ep22: #497 Tailoring and Ramping up Management of Methamphetamine Use Disorder for the Current Era with Dr. Phillip Coffin

November 17, 2025

In this high-yield episode of Curbsiders Addiction Medicine, we dive deep into a practical and compassionate approach to caring for patients using methamphetamines and/or living with methamphetamine use disorder. We explore the latest pharmacologic options, harm reduction strategies, contingency management, and innovative ideas for monitoring and supporting patients. Whether you’re in primary care or other subspecialty settings, this episode is packed with pearls for every clinician with our ...

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