Thank you for joining ACOEM for another episode of OccPod. In this timely conversation, host Dr. Ismail Nabeel is joined by Dr. Dominik Dabrowski to discuss substance use disorder in the workplace.

Dr. Nabeel is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Dabrowski is the Medical Director at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, with a background in both occupational and addiction medicine — he completed his occupational medicine residency at HealthPartners and an addiction medicine fellowship at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, and most recently served as an attending physician at Mount Sinai Health System.

In this episode, Drs. Nabeel and Dabrowski discuss emerging synthetic opioids – including fentanyl analogs, xylazine, and Medetomidine – and what occupational medicine physicians, MROs, and DOT providers need to know about detection, treatment, and the evolving landscape of substance use in the workplace.