Updates
Automakers Charged with Finding Technology to Stop Drunk Drivers
Congress is mandating a new requirement for automakers: Find a high-tech way to keep intoxicated people from driving cars. It’s one of several mandates along with new spending aimed at improving auto safety amid rising road fatalities in the $1 trillion infrastructure...
Telehealth for Opioid Use Disorder Toolkit: Guidance to Support High-Quality Care
The goal of this Toolkit/Guidance from Providers Clinical Support System (PCSS) is to help clinicians and policymakers as they navigate the current changing environment regarding telehealth for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. This toolkit blends information on...
Variation in ED visit rates for OUD: Implications for Quality Improvement Initiatives
This study looked at characteristics of emergency department (ED) opioid use disorder (OUD)-related visits and how different benchmarking metrics might affect distribution of resources by hospital type, geography, and population served. The hospitals with the highest...
White House Provides States Road Map for Easing Access to Naloxone
The White House continues its efforts to combat the nation’s addiction crisis by providing states with a legislative road map for removing barriers to the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone. The model law, released by the Office of National Drug Control Policy...
Drug Overdose Deaths in America Reach New Record High
According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S. during the 12-month period ending April 2021. That’s a new record high, with overdose deaths jumping nearly 29% from the same...
Updated NC Statewide Overdose Surveillance Reports for October 2021
The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health recently updated provisional data on suspected opioid overdose EMS encounters and ED visits for opioid-related overdose and unintentional med/drug with potential for abuse overdose for October...
Target Audience
This program is recommended for physicians, nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, medical assistants, care managers, care coordinators, and mental health professionals (including substance abuse counselors, social workers, psychologists, school counselors, and marriage and family therapists), and other professionals interested in this subject.
Objectives
- Recognize the epidemiology of stimulant use disorder and current data trends on use of stimulants
- Define stimulant use disorder and apply theories of pathophysiology
- Identify signs and symptoms of a patient with stimulant use disorder
- Describe behavioral therapy methods and pharmacotherapy options for stimulant use disorder
- Interpret stigma, bias, health equity and disparities among people who use drugs
- Identify harm reduction strategies for people who use stimulants
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Addiction Medicine Spring and Fall Conferences provide up-to-date substance use related education, applicable across general medical as well as addiction specialty practices.