Episode
Making It YOUR Choice
- Podcast
- SMART Recovery® Podcast
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- Mar 27, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 2455
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Summary
Naltrexone has been used to treat alcohol use disorder for 30 years, ever since researcher Dr. Joseph Volpicelli identified its effectiveness. In this podcast we are joined by both Dr. Volpicelli and Jonathan Hunt-Glassman, the founder of Oar Health, an organization that supports the combination of medication and psychosocial supports to assist people seeking to change their relationship to alcohol. Dr. Joseph Volpicelli runs the Volpicelli Center and is a University of Pennsylvania's Medical Scientist Training Program graduate, receiving both his doctorate of medicine and psychology. In this podcast Jonathan shares his and others personal stories of successfully making changes by using Naltrexone and other supports. For Dr. Volpicelli, it comes down to the medication helping individuals make the best choices for themselves when it comes to alcohol use, and the positive steps that he sees patients make in their recovery journeys.