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Welcome back to the curbsiders' internal medicine podcast, where we use expert interviews to bring you clinical referrals and practice changing knowledge. Today, we are actually giving Matt and

pull a break. So if you have never heard our voices before, I'm Dr. Carolyn Chan, and I'm here

with Dr. Sean Cohen, and we are actually going to bring you an episode today of the

curbsiders addiction medicine, which is our mini-series on substance use disorders.

Today, we have a super exciting episode with Dr. Jesse Merlin on chronic pain management and patients with

opioid use disorder.

But before we get too much into what we're going to chat about today, Sean, will you remind the

audience what we actually do on this miniseries?

I will.

I feel like we finally made the big time that we get to do to host the Curbsiders internal

medicine podcast without any supervisors.

So we are the AddictionMed podcast and miniseries that uses expert interviews to demystify

common addiction med topics, reduce stigma.

We get to talk with people that inspire us and teach us things every

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