Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is the most prevalent substance use disorder, but most patients with AUD do not receive evidence-based medications for AUD (MAUD), including naltrexone or acamprosate. Inpatient addiction consult services (ACS) may offer an opportunity to start medical treatment for hospitalized patients with AUD, but it is unknown if ACS are associated […]

Background: Management of heart failure (HF) patients revolves around optimization of guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) and routine monitoring. Substance use plays a major role as the etiology of HF, especially in a low socioeconomic area with ethnic and racial minority patients. The aim of this study is to find the correlation of alcohol, tobacco […]

Background: Approximately 5% of patients hospitalized at our institution develop clinically significant alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). Inpatients who develop AWS may experience seizures, delirium, ICU transfer and prolonged length of stay. While the mortality of AWS, mostly related to delirium tremens, has decreased over time, severe alcohol withdrawal is still associated with a mortality of […]

Case Presentation: A 32 year old male with alcohol abuse and Kratom use was initially hospitalized for 7 days for acute alcoholic pancreatitis and discharged with corticosteroids due to concern for alcoholic hepatitis. On day 14 of corticosteroids, he was readmitted for acute blood loss anemia requiring transfusion. Initial esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) showed gastric mucormycosis on […]