This lecture serves to review medications that are utilized in treatment of opioid use disorder mainly focusing on buprenorphine, with a very brief overview of naltrexone and methadone. This will provide high-yield prescribing recommendations for starting, maintaining, and tapering buprenorphine. The lecture will be given largely in case-based examples with structured evidence-based data to help guide prescribers feel more comfortable with this life-saving medication.

Aubrey is a primary care physician at Central City Concern's Blackburn Center with a focus on substance use treatment and wound care for Portland's houseless community. She is a graduate of NUNM in 2019 where she received her ND degree and residency training. She also serves on the board of Columbia Wound Care Community and as a committee member for the Oregon Health Authority Healthcare Workforce Committee. In her spare time, she enjoys skiing, surfing, climbing, and mountaineering with her husband.