Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Kentucky had the second highest drug overdose death rate in the U.S. in 2013.

Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center - Faculty

• Leanne K. Diakov , JD

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Kentucky had the second highest drug overdose death rate in the U.S. in 2013.

Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center - Faculty

• Michelle R. Lofwall , MD, DFASAM

Addiction affects 10-20% of the population without prejudice to race, sex, income, or age. With the increasing death rate due to legal prescriptions and drugs manufactured illegally, dentists and dental hygienists need to incorporate the ADA policy on opiates into their practice to address the problem. They also need to know if medical marijuana is a viable alternative...

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• Brett H. Kessler , DDS

Dentists need to read the Kentucky statutes describing the practice of dentistry.

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• Cynthia L. Effinger , JD

Roughly 1 in 7 people in the United States (14.6% of the population) are expected to develop a Substance Use Disorder (SUD) at some point in their lives (per 2016 US Surgeon General’s report). Dentists need to know where to turn for help.

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• Brian E. Fingerson , RPh, FAPhA

This module explores the current trends in illicit drug use-specifically marijuana. A significant percentage of patients in our practices (and our lives) may be abusing illicit drugs. Strategies will be discussed to help identify, manage difficult conversations, and treat this demographic.

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• Brett H. Kessler , DDS

Low-threshold medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) clinics represent a key link between episodes of illness driven by opioid use disorder (OUD) and effective management of OUD.

Sharing lessons learned from the roll-out of low-threshold MOUD clinics is needed to improve patient care.

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• Devin A. Oller , MD

KASPER is a controlled substance prescription monitoring system designed to be a source of information to assist practitioners and pharmacists with providing medical and pharmaceutical patient care using controlled substance medications. KASPER also provides an investigative tool for law enforcement and regulatory agencies to assist with authorized reviews and...

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• David McMahan

Health care providers, family members, and friends need to have the skills to prevail over the anger and hopelessness that is felt when dealing with the affliction of addiction by utilizing "great reserves of love
and discipline to investigate what might help...” New York Times

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• Van Ingram
• David Sheff

Because of inadequate provision of addiction treatment in physician practices and referrals to appropriate specialty care, health care professionals need education on the nature of addiction as a chronic brain disease and application of the chronic disease model to this disorder. This training has been approved by KBML as meeting statutory requirements of...

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