Understanding Opiate And Heroin Addiction Podcast #277
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd talk with Kenji Oyasu, Executive Medical Director of the Brightside, a clinic dedicated to the treatment of prescription drugs and heroin addiction. He offers new insight to why this addiction is so deadly, why it can be a challenge to treat, and the new model of recovery that is offering hope and changing lives.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do here we go. |
| 0:07.1 | My name is Todd Adams. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Kathy Adams. |
| 0:09.4 | Welcome back to Zedin Parenting Radio. |
| 0:11.6 | We have a wonderful podcast set up for you here. |
| 0:15.1 | We have our friend who we just met. |
| 0:17.0 | His name is Dr. Kenji Oyasu from Brightside Clinic in Northbrook, Illinois. Welcome, Dr. Kenji. |
| 0:24.3 | How are you? Fine. Thank you very much. Thanks for happening. I'm going to have you bring, |
| 0:27.2 | there you go, and just say about that same space away from the mic. Got it. So Dr. Kenji, |
| 0:31.6 | he founded Brightside to treat opioid. Is that? Correct. Opioid addiction in a compassionate, collaborative environment. |
| 0:39.5 | Dr. Oyasu has over 20 years of clinical experience in acute care and office-based treatment. |
| 0:46.6 | Over the past eight, he has been recognized as a caring leader by taking on leadership roles |
| 0:50.9 | in major hospitals, improving his clinical skills and developing his unique |
| 0:54.6 | practice style. |
| 0:55.9 | Now, you've called him two different things already. |
| 0:58.0 | Dr. Kenji and Dr. Say his last name. |
| 1:00.9 | Oh, Yasu. |
| 1:01.5 | So which one do you go by, Kenji? |
| 1:02.9 | It depends on the situation. |
| 1:04.1 | Okay, so you do both. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:05.5 | It's been great. |
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