060 - The Epidemic Within the Pandemic: Opioids and COVID-19

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the opioid epidemic disappeared from headlines but not from reality. Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks to Dr. Yngvild Olsen, the medical director of an addiction treatment program in Baltimore and the Vice President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, about how her clinic had to pivot to stay open while protecting both patients and staff, how federal regulations have shifted, and what the status of the epidemic is and might be post-COVID-19. Disclosure: Medical school classmates, Dr. Sharfstein and Dr. Olsen are married.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:42.8	Today, I'm speaking to Dr. Infield Olson,
0:46.4	an addiction medicine physician at IBR Reach Health
0:49.4	Services in Baltimore.
0:51.5	Dr. Olson is also the vice president of the American Society
0:54.8	of Addiction Medicine.
0:56.6	We discuss how treatment programs have had to transform
0:59.3	themselves to be able to take care of patients
1:02.7	and stay as safe as possible from COVID-19.
1:07.2	Let's listen.
1:08.5	Dr. Olson, thank you so much for joining me. You are the medical director of an
1:12.8	addiction treatment program here in Baltimore. So when the pandemic was headed here, when you realized
1:18.2	that COVID-19 was coming to Baltimore, what were you thinking about? So I was worried. You know, I was
1:25.3	worried about my patients. I see a lot of patients who have
1:29.5	opiate use disorder. We provide them with life-saving treatment, including medications like methadone
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