Understanding Medetomidine: Emerging Challenges for Addiction Medicine
Published: Monday, February 9, 2026 Podcast Series
Overview
Join ASAM Practice Pearls for in-depth discussions on addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery. Listen to interviews with leading experts as they delve into critical topics and share practical tools you can use to improve patient care and promote public health. Each Episodes offers actionable key takeaways that providers can immediately apply in their practice and providing additional resources for continued learning.
The target audience for these comprehensive level episodes includes all medication prescribers and care team members.
This session addresses the following ACGME Competencies: Patient Care and Procedural Skills, Practice-based Learning and Improvement, and Medical Knowledge.
Learning Objectives
These are the learning objectives for season 2. Not all learning objectives will be covered in every episode.
Explain emerging evidence and clinical considerations for different substances to enhance assessment and support safe, effective treatment planning for individuals with substance use disorders.
Apply up-to-date, evidence-based, and patient-centered strategies and guidance to enhance patient engagement, promote safety, and improve outcomes for individuals with substance use disorders across various healthcare settings.
Recognize how structural, social, and cultural factors influence substance use, treatment access, and patient–clinician interactions, and implement strategies to enhance equity and deliver culturally responsive, inclusive addiction care.
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Stephen Taylor
MD, MPH, DFAPA, DFASAM
Pathway Healthcare
Stephen M. Taylor, MD, MPH, DFAPA, DFASAM is the Chief Medical Officer of Pathway Healthcare, a company that operates 13 outpatient mental health and addiction treatment offices across Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Dr. Taylor is board-certified in psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Dr. Taylor is in his 15th season as the Medical Director of the Player Assistance/Anti-Drug Program of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA). Dr. Taylor is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (DFASAM). He is Vice Chair of ASAM’s Legislative Advocacy Committee and serves on ASAM’s Public Policy Committee. He is co-chair of ASAM’s Writing Subcommittee on Advancing Racial Justice, which drafted ASAM’s Public Policy Statement on Advancing Racial Justice in Addiction Medicine. He also chairs ASAM’s Delegation to the AMA House of Delegates and is a member of the ASAM Board of Directors. Dr. Taylor is a certified Medical Review Officer (MRO) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Medical Review Officer Certification Council (MROCC). He also serves on the Drug Testing Advisory Board (DTAB) of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Addiction Prevention Coalition, a non-profit community organization in Birmingham, AL. An honors graduate of Harvard College, with a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine, Dr. Taylor completed “Triple Board” residency in pediatrics, psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, then completed a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital Center.
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Dr. Jeanmarie Perrone, MD
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Jeanmarie Perrone, MD is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, the Director of the Division of Medical Toxicology and the founding Director of the Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania.Dr. Perrone has led numerous investigations and initiatives in opioid stewardship and ED treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) with buprenorphine.She serves on several regional and national task forces and advisory committees with the State of Pennsylvania, the CDC and FDA addressing judicious opioid use and MOUD treatment access. She has advocated at the state and national level for harm reduction and ED treatment for OUD and is aco-investigator in a 30 site NIDA sponsored trial of ED buprenorphine.Dr. Perrone has been featured in prominent news media including the New York Times, USA Today and National Public Radio and published in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA . She has won numerous awards for education and mentorship of students, residents and fellows and is boarded in emergency medicine, medical toxicology and addiction medicine.
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Michael Lynch, MD FACEP FACMT
Senior Medical Director
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Division of Medical Toxicology, Department of Emergency Medicine
In support of improving patient care, the American Society of Addiction Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
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Physicians: .5 Credit
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PAs: .5 Credit
Interprofessional Continuing Education: .5 Credit
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American Society of Addiction Medicine has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7062. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. American Society of Addiction Medicine is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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Understanding Medetomidine: Emerging Challenges for Addiction Medicine
Recorded 02/09/2026 | 21 minutes
Recorded 02/09/2026 | 21 minutes
This 21-minute podcast episode was released on Monday, February 9, 2026. Access the episode on your favorite streaming service or listen here.
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This factsheet equips providers with essential information to recognize and treat medetomidine withdrawal syndrome. Developed January 2026.
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