Claudia P. Rodriguez, MD

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Dr Rodriguez is an instructor at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Outpatient Addiction Recovery Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and Assistant Medical Director of Substance Use Disorders for Massachusetts General Brigham.

Articles

To See You Go

March 9th 2022

“I saw your rise, and missed your fall. I couldn’t have caught you if I tried…”

The Death of an Addict

Claudia P. Rodriguez, MD

June 17th 2015

As clinicians, we can only imagine what happens when patients terminate treatment. Thoughts from an addiction psychiatry fellow.

Jonesin’

Claudia P. Rodriguez, MD

August 18th 2014

In a world in which substance use disorders are no longer suffered in isolation, treating addiction is a challenging journey with obstacles, intermittent failures, and life-altering successes. A poem on drug withdrawal expressed through the eyes of a fellow in addiction medicine.

Frozen in Fear: On Treating PTSD

Claudia P. Rodriguez, MD

May 16th 2014

We do not have to set time aside to do something that helps validate our experience, while simultaneously coping with it. The lesson expressed in this psychiatry resident's poem.