Addiction Medicine
Conventional treatment first, and optimised, before anything else is discussed.
Department Family: Neurological & Behavioural Medicine
Alcohol, opioid, and nicotine use disorder, with an emphasis on patients for whom approved pharmacotherapy and structured behavioural treatment have not produced durable remission.
Relapse is driven by circuit-level change that outlasts detoxification by years, which is why agents effective against acute withdrawal do not prevent return to use. Approved treatment is offered and optimised first; investigational approaches are restricted to those who have exhausted it. That sequence is not negotiable, and it is the condition under which this work is defensible at all.
Scope of Practice & Delivery Modalities
Clinical Procedures & Intervention Protocols
Refer a Patient or Initiate Clinical Candidacy Assessment
Referring clinicians and patients can submit clinical records, diagnostic imaging, and pathology for multidisciplinary evaluation by Addiction Medicine faculty.