Pharmacotherapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: A practical guide for GPs and other healthcare practitioners

Around one in five Australian adults will meet criteria for an alcohol use disorder in their lifetime, and alcohol-induced deaths remain near their highest levels in a decade. Yet fewer than 3% of Australians with AUD receive a PBS-listed medication for it despite two first-line medicines that are safe, effective, streamlined-authority PBS items.

In this one hour webinar, Clean Slate Clinic clinicians Dr Chris Davis (Addiction Medicine Specialist and GP) and Colin Fearns (Prescribing Pharmacist) walk through the practical pharmacotherapy of AUD for Australian practice: who to assess and how; when planned withdrawal is needed and when it isn't; how to choose between acamprosate, naltrexone and disulfiram; how to prescribe and monitor safely; when to refer; and what the emerging GLP-1 evidence does, and does not, show.