The Transformed Minds Pod
The Transformed Minds Pod
Podcast Description
Transformed Minds is a podcast dedicated to reshaping how we understand and approach mental health and substance use. Through evidence-based discussions, real stories, and expert interviews, we create a space for learning, reflection, and transformation.
Hosted by theprayingpsychiatrist, a physician, researcher, and advocate for community and global mental health, this platform bridges evidence-based medicine, clinical insight and lived experience. Whether you're a provider, trainer, policymaker, patient, or loved one—this podcast is for you.
Let’s learn, heal and transform – together!
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast delves into essential themes surrounding mental health and addiction, focusing on topics like integration of addiction care into mental health services, the impact of dual diagnoses, and the intersection of faith and healing. For instance, an episode featuring Dr. Ayana Jordan discusses innovative models of care for co-occurring disorders based on her research, emphasizing the necessity of embedding addiction specialists into community mental health.
Transformed Minds is a podcast dedicated to reshaping how we understand and approach mental health and substance use. Through evidence-based discussions, real stories, and expert interviews, we create a space for learning, reflection, and transformation.
Hosted by theprayingpsychiatrist, a physician, researcher, and advocate for community and global mental health, this platform bridges evidence-based medicine, clinical insight and lived experience. Whether you’re a provider, trainer, policymaker, patient, or loved one—this podcast is for you.
Let’s learn, heal and transform – together!
In this episode of Transformed Minds Season 2, Dr. O sits down with addiction medicine specialist Dr. Desai, a CATCH Team Lead Physician (Consult for Addiction Treatment and Care in Hospitals), for a deep clinical dive into alcohol withdrawal management in the hospital setting.
Whether you're a hospitalist, internist, nurse, resident, addiction medicine clinician, or medical student, this episode gives you a practical, bedside framework you can use immediately.
What You'll Learn:
- A practical framework for risk-stratifying alcohol withdrawal at the bedside
- When and how to use CIWA and what most clinicians get wrong
- How to choose between benzodiazepine regimens based on patient profile
- When phenobarbital enters the picture and how to use it safely
- How an interdisciplinary consult model changes outcomes for hospitalized patients with alcohol use disorder
Chapters
- 00:00 Why Early Assessment Matters
- 00:49 Welcome to Transformed Minds
- 02:38 Meet Dr. Desai
- 04:37 What Is the CATCH Team
- 07:26 Alcohol Withdrawal Red Flags
- 13:10 Bedside CIWA and Reassessment
- 15:16 Symptom-Triggered Protocols
- 18:10 High-Risk Withdrawal Timeline
- 20:22 Front-Loading and Fixed Tapers
- 25:58 Complicated Withdrawal and Phenobarbital
- 36:54 Choosing the Right Benzo
- 39:32 Key Takeaways and Wrap Up
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