Dr. Zina Huxley-Reicher
Internal Medicine & Addiction Medicine
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Dr. Zina Huxley-Reicher is an internal medicine & addiction medicine physician at NYC Health + Hospitals in Brooklyn, New York.
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Episode # 498 • 15 Sept 2025
Opioid Withdrawal
Grow your management tools for opioid withdrawal in the hospital. Investigate how to decide between methadone and buprenorphine, additional medications to manage symptoms and how and when to use short-acting opioids for management of withdrawal. We’re joined by Ashish Thakrar, MD at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About
Dr. Zina Alden Huxley-Reicher is an internal medicine and addiction medicine physician at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, where she provides comprehensive primary care while helping patients navigate substance use disorders and recovery. A graduate of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, she completed her primary care internal medicine training at Yale New Haven Hospital before pursuing fellowship training in addiction medicine at Montefiore/Albert Einstein. Dr. Huxley-Reicher is passionate about integrating evidence-based addiction treatment into everyday healthcare settings, ensuring patients receive compassionate, stigma-free care that addresses both their medical and behavioral health needs. Her clinical and scholarly work focuses on improving care for people with substance use disorders and advancing innovative approaches to addiction treatment within primary care and hospital medicine.
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