Dr. Stephen Klein

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I would say the first step is kind of day one.

I knock on somebody's door and I wake them up in what feels like a hospital room because that's where our residential detoxification happens.

And the first conversation is really forecasting what's going to happen.

So if I know someone has been doing opioids, it's my job to forecast what the next few days are going to feel like and what to expect.

What we know is that opioid withdrawal is incredibly uncomfortable.

It's not life-threatening.

So it's not something that you can't get through.

And we do lots of things to treat the symptoms of opioid withdrawal.

We have great medications that can make patients feel better and help them tolerate that time period.

I do start the conversation early that when our bodies and minds are craving something, it's really, really hard to think about anything else.

Yeah.

So I also use that time to really set the stage that they're with us for 28 to 30 days.

I really want those days to be focused on the inner work and not their cravings and not their withdrawal.

And that's when the conversation starts about buprenorphine in the kind of the first two to three days.

And that's when either patients say, I'm ready.

I would like to start as soon as I can.

And then we talk about what that looks like or...

I have a lot of work to do.

You need to talk to my family, my network, things like that.

And then it's a longer conversation.

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