Olga Terechin, MD

Explore which treatments are best for your patients with alcohol use disorders and when you should refer for specialized psychological or pharmacologic interventions.

Although the primary objective of managing acute pain is to provide effective pain relief, it is also important to minimize medication side effects, improve patient function, and reduce the...

Long-term complications of ACEs involve psychiatric and medical conditions, such as mood and substance use disorders, chronic heart and lung diseases, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and PTSD.

When prescribing opioids for pain, prescription monitoring programs should be checked, regular urine toxicology screening should be conducted, and patients with an opioid use disorder should receive FDA-approved medication...

Knowledge of nonpharmacologic approaches as well as medications’ mechanisms of action, side effects, and drug-drug interactions can facilitate the timely and appropriate use of psychotropics to help individuals cut...