Presenter: Stephanie Leopold
Affiliation: KNEW Integrative Health, United States
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation (Virtual)
Title: Medical Innovations in Addiction Relapse Prevention: Neurobiologic Targets and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches
🔬 Presentation Highlights
∙ Focus: Exploring innovative medical approaches to prevent relapse in individuals with substance use disorders (SUD).
∙ Key Insight: Relapse is increasingly understood as a neurobiologic condition, not simply a behavioral failure.
∙ Neurobiology: Chronic substance exposure alters mesolimbic dopamine pathways, prefrontal cortex regulation, and salience networks, affecting decision-making and emotional control.
∙ Trauma Link: Trauma exposure disrupts the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, contributing to anxiety, insomnia, emotional instability, and relapse vulnerability.
∙ Emerging Therapies: Discussion on innovative treatments including ketamine-assisted therapy and psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for addiction and trauma-related disorders.
∙ Mechanisms: Potential therapeutic effects through 5-HT2A receptor modulation, increased neural connectivity, and enhanced emotional processing.
∙ Clinical Perspective: Emphasis on safety protocols, screening methods, and structured therapeutic frameworks.
∙ Future Outlook: Integrating emerging neuroplasticity-based therapies with established addiction treatments may improve long-term recovery outcomes.
👩⚕️ About the Speaker
Stephanie Leopold is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist with over 20 years of clinical experience in critical care, anesthesia, and perioperative medicine.
∙ Founder of KNEW Integrative Health, focusing on integrative approaches to addiction and trauma recovery.
∙ Former Chief CRNA and board contributor in professional nurse anesthesiology organizations.
∙ Graduate of the **Changa Institute Legal Psilocybin Facilitator Training Program.
∙ International lecturer on addiction relapse prevention, trauma neurobiology, and emerging therapeutic interventions.
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Event: International Conference on Addiction Medicine, Mental Health and Psychiatry
📅 Dates: March 23–25, 2026
📍 Venue: Singapore & Online
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