Dr. Stephen Klein

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550 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Jun

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Addiction is a high morbidity, high mortality disease.

The risk of not taking MOUD for severe opioid use disorder in the most extreme is death from overdose.

I actually don't think there's anything lazy about being on buprenorphine.

I use the word heroic a lot.

My patients are incredibly heroic and incredibly courageous.

My background is actually a little bit unique for someone who practices addiction medicine.

So from a medical perspective, I've had a lot of training in different areas.

For example, I'm an MD and a PhD.

My PhD is in human genetics.

That means I did medical school and graduate school, both of which were at UCLA.

My PhD is in human genetics, and I followed that to then study pediatrics and medical genetics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Cool.

I was really growing that career in pediatrics and genetics, but then really had a change of heart, which I'll talk about a little bit.

Because more than all of that training to that date, I was also a person in recovery during that time.

So I got sober during medical school after the...

trials and tribulations of everyday life and some things that happened in my personal life really started to compete with my scholarly activities.

I found myself heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol and then found sobriety through

Alcoholics Anonymous, a few other channels in recovery.

And that was happening in the background of all of that training.

So I went to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, set on doing a career in pediatrics and genetics.

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