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

And hope I can also try to offer because I see what the other side has looked like.

And that's really where I find this career to be so incredibly rewarding.

And, you know, it's in the big book and the language of Alcoholics Anonymous, but there's really nothing that replaces one alcoholic talking to another, one person with lived experience breaking down that wall.

And to be honest, to zoom out, I think it's because it instantaneously shatters stigma.

I'm offering medications not as a representative of just medicine and someone who's been to school and someone who has the education.

I'm offering medications as someone who's walked through that path, who knows that there's so much more of the journey, but this may make the beginning of the journey easier.

And that, to me, is the entire conversation.

I start by first acknowledging how hard their journey has been.

Being the loved one of someone affected by any type of substance use disorder is devastating.

Addiction is a family disease.

It affects the person with the substance use disorder and everyone around them.

And from that standpoint, I really start from an inquisitive standpoint of what is your fear about opioids?

The idea of replacing one opioid with another when you have a grave distrust, because from your perspective,

Opioids have destroyed your family and your future and your loved one.

I get it.

I understand your fear from that.

vantage point of curiosity, I open up the conversation of, what do you know about these medications?

Do you know anyone on them?

And is there anything that I can answer about the specifics of how they're going to be used?

I think in the beginning, the biggest questions are, can they be abused?

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