Faculty

Needs Statement

Understanding addiction is essential to successfully addressing it. By understanding the neurological responses to substances and brain changes that occur during addiction, participants will better be able to educate and treat patients with substance use disorder (SUD).  Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is often viewed as a moral failing and not as a medically treatable chronic illness – these common myths will be discussed along with appropriate medical language that are critical to improving treatment access and patient outcomes and combating stigma.

Target Audience

Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Pharmacists, Social Workers

Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Identify the spectrum of substance use
• Describe neurological responses to substances
• Use accurate terminology

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, University of Kentucky HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

CME
This enduring material is designated for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This training has been approved by the KBML as meeting the statutory requirements of HB1. 0121-H1.5-UKHC1e

ACGME Competencies

• Patient care
• Medical knowledge
• Practice-based learning and improvement
• Interpersonal and communication skills

CPE
This knowledge-based activity will award 1.00 contact hour (0.100 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education credit in states that recognize ACPE providers.

ASWB ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, UK HealthCare CECentral is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. UK HealthCare CECentral maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 clinical continuing education credit.

CNE
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour.

Faculty Disclosure

No speaker, planners or content reviewers have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Acknowledgement

In collaboration with UK Substance Use Research Priority Area.

Attention: Please Read

Q&A and Scenarios for Overview of Substance Use Disorder enduring module is a recording from the live Regularly Scheduled Series dated January 28, 2021. If you claimed credit for this session at the live meeting, you should not claim credit for this module.