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Symptom-Triggered Alcohol Withdrawal Management Delivered Over Telemedicine
Episode 60
Friday, 6 February, 2026

In this episode of Beyond The Abstract, Dr. Matthew Sloan sits down to discuss findings from his recent article Symptom-Triggered Alcohol Withdrawal Management Delivered Over Telemedicine featured in the November/December issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine. Join us as Dr. Sloan shares insights into his study investigating the feasibility of delivering symptom-triggered alcohol withdrawal management over telemedicine. Dr. Matthew Sloan is a clinician scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He specializes in the treatment of substance use disorders and their psychiatric comorbidities. He completed medical school and psychiatry residency at McGill University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in human psychopharmacology at the National Institutes of Health and an addiction psychiatry fellowship at Yale University. Dr. Sloan's primary research interests are developing innovative new treatments for substance use disorders and exploring determinants of psychopharmacological response to drugs of misuse. He has obtained competitive research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Health Canada, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Discovery Fund and has received scientific prizes from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Article Link: Symptom-Triggered Alcohol Withdrawal Management Delivered Over Telemedicine