Chris Aiken, MD. Editor-in-Chief, The Carlat Psychiatry Report. 

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Monthe Kofos, DO. Addiction Psychiatry Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

Noah Capurso, MD, MHS. Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Editor-in-Chief, The Carlat Addiction Treatment Report.

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Bryan K. Tolliver, MD, PhD

Associate professor, Addiction Sciences Division, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina. Charleston, SC.

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“When tailoring medication choice, a careful history can guide you. If I’m treating a patient who drinks excessively at night to sleep or who struggles with insomnia when they try to stop drinking, I’ll start with a sedating antidepressant like mirtazapine. That’s not an evidence-based decision, it’s a clinical decision that I think can be helpful.”