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Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds

Name: Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds
Start: 2026-10-27T16:00:00.0000000Z
End: 2026-10-27T17:00:00.0000000Z
Location: Yale University

Novel Approaches to Buprenorphine and Methadone Initiation

This session will be held in a virtual format.

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The Yale Program in Addiction Medicine is pleased to welcome Pouya Azar MD, as guest speaker for Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on October 27, 2026.

This event will be held in a virtual format.

Title: Novel Approaches to Buprenorphine and Methadone Initiation

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the pharmacology of high-potency synthetic opioids and its implications for initiating medications for opioid use disorder.

2. Discuss the evidence base, pharmacologic rationale, clinical applications, and relative risks and benefits of novel approaches to initiating buprenorphine, extended-release buprenorphine, and methadone, including transdermal patch, naloxone-facilitated, and symptom-inhibited methods.

Addiction Medicine Rounds are CME accredited. Each session will be assigned 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM