Kirsten Smith, David Epstein & Stephanie Weiss
Reviews To Read – August 2024.
Published in Current Psychiatry Reports by Kirsten Smith, David Epstein & Stephanie Weiss of the NIDA IRP Translational Addiction Medicine Branch.
This publication arose because Dr. Weiss was asked to write about “kratom misuse” for a kratom-focused issue of Current Psychiatry Reports. She agreed to contribute, but with a change of title and aims. With Drs. Smith and Epstein, the piece that emerged was: (1) a critical evaluation of the criteria for substance-use disorders (SUDs), (2) a consolidation of our own findings (and others’ findings) on the prevalence and nature of kratom-use disorder (KUD) among people who use kratom, with careful consideration of the respects in which KUD is and isn’t comparable to daily reliance on caffeinated beverages, (3) our best attempt at a decision tree for physicians to evaluate and treat cases of KUD that require biomedical intervention, accounting especially for the presence or absence of a co-occurring opioid-use disorder (OUD).
Controversies in Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Kratom Use Disorder Journal Article
In: Curr Psychiatry Rep, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 487–496, 2024, ISSN: 1535-1645.
