Dr. Stephen Klein

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RECOVERable: Mental Health and Addiction Experts Answer Your Questions · Naltrexone, Suboxone, Methadone: How Medications Treat Opioid Addiction · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

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The version that experienced trauma from the version that is now in the present, the version who was, you know, for me, a young gay boy who didn't know how to integrate my sexuality into the mainstay of my existence to who I am now.

All of these things lead to disconnection.

And I think in the space between identities is where addiction can really flourish.

So I think that's where we use substances to really get in and start to have the illusion that we feel okay when really we're troubled by the way that we feel.

The most important question, which is my statement about this is in addiction medicine, I don't treat scraped knees.

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 would say also just decreased quality.

There are still barriers.

I think the first step is to acknowledge all of the steps you've taken to get to that point, that you've really done an incredible amount of work and that you've probably had an incredible amount of hurt by going through whatever you've gone through or what your loved one has gone through.

So just to be at that point, I think, takes in a huge amount of effort and is heroic.

I think the first step from that point is to find a medical professional who's versed in addiction medicine who can walk you through the options.

Depending on where you live, that may be easier or harder to have access to.

We're getting better and better about providing both telemedicine, more in-person opportunities, more things that are supported by insurance, both state and federal insurances.

So I think finding that no matter what it looks like and knowing what resources you have and the internet is obviously a wealth of being able to connect people.

It can be hard to navigate, but really if you need to start that conversation with your primary care doctor, your family doctor, your pediatrician, anybody to start that ball rolling who can put you in the right direction of someone who prescribes buprenorphine.

The first, anytime anyone asks me, you know, I'm struggling, I just listen.

For the first part of it, I listen to what substances they're doing, what's going on in their life, how it's affecting them.

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