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Addiction Medicine Presentations

Understanding Gambling: An Overview

Dr. Sader is a family physician with an undergrad degree in human genetics with Psychology minor. He is a certified fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He has been working in addictions and psychiatry since 1992 and presently works out of GMF-1851 in south central Montréal. His special interests include smoking, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, eating disorders, ADHD and gambling.

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Learning Objectives:

1. Gain a more complete understanding of gambling behaviours
2. Grasp the importance of addressing the associated co-morbidities
3. Understand why and how the pandemic has impacted gambling behaviour
4. Know where to refer patients with Gambling disorders

Understanding Sex and Porn Addiction

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Laurie Betito is a clinical psychologist, internationally certified psychosexual therapist, author of the Sex Bible for People over 50, two time TEDx speaker, and director of the Pornhub Sexual Wellness Center.

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Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the history of the term ‘sex addiction’
2. Understand why ‘sex addiction’ is not an official psychiatric diagnosis
3. Differentiate problematic sexual behavior from a high sex drive
4. Identify problematic/compulsive sexual behaviors
5. Gain some knowledge on how problematic porn viewing affects the brain
6. Understand the impact on a relationship
7. Ask the right questions as a preliminary assessment

Buprenorphine/naloxone (suboxone) in the office setting

Dr. Pasztor is a Family Doctor at the Jewish General Hospital at the Herzl Clinic. Her clinical practise and interest is focused on Addiction Medicine. She is the Director of the Herzl Addiction Clinic where she also runs a hepatitis C clinic for the IV drug using population at the Herzl. She is a teacher at the Herzl Clinic and spends time on the clinical teaching unit-Family Medicine Ward at the Jewish General Hospital.

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Learning Objectives:

1. Familiarize yourself with the prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of an opioid use disorder
2. Be clear on the indications for using buprenorphine/naloxone
3. Be able to begin an induction for buprenorphine/naloxone
4. Discuss length of treatment, how to taper and potentially discontinue buprenorphine/naloxone

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   Alcohol Use Disorder

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Dr. Emilie Poitout Medical school and Family Medicine residency at Â鶹AV, fellowship in Addiction Medicine at the CHUM affiliated with the University of Montreal. Now working as a general practitioner in a GMF as well as an Addiction Medicine hospitalist and consultant at the CHUM and Verdun Hospital.

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Learning Objectives:

1. Diagnose an alcohol use disorder (AUD), using the DSM-V criteria
2. Describe potential complications of alcohol withdrawal
3. Prescribe a withdrawal protocol for outpatient and inpatient withdrawals
4. Prescribe relapse prevention medications for AUD

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   Cannabis use disorder and other comorbidities

Dr. Gobbi leads a laboratory of basic science (Neurobiological Psychiatry Unit), holds the Canadian Research Chair in Therapeutics for Mental Health, and works as a staff psychiatrist at the Mood Disorder Clinic of the Â鶹AV Health Center. Her research approach spans from bench to bedside, bridging the gaps between fundamental and clinical research.

She served as an expert witness for the Canadian Senate (2012), the Ministry of Health (2019) and the Ministry of Justice (2019) of Quebec for the cannabis legislation, her studies on cannabis have influenced policies raising the age of cannabis consumption from 18 to 21 yo in Quebec and banning the advertisement of cannabis.

Learning Objectives:

1. Cannabis use disorder (CUD)
2. Cannabis and depression
3. Cannabis and psychosis
4. Cannabis in bipolar patients