Addiction Medicine

Reducing Stigma: The Past, Present and Future of Recovery (10 User Ratings) 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... Faculty Michelle R. Lofwall, MD, DFASAM

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Tips for Prescribing/Dispensing Controlled Substances Within the Law (24 User Ratings) 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... Faculty Leanne K. Diakov, JD

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Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: The Evidence Base and Common Pitfalls and Myths (9 User Ratings) Medication treatment for Opioid Use Disorder remains poorly understood such that few affected individuals ever receive these effective FDA-approved medications. Providers need to know how treatment... Faculty Michelle R. Lofwall, MD, DFASAM

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Substance Use Disorders in Your Medical Practice: Treatment and Referral Updates (5 User Ratings) 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... Faculty Kelly J. Clark, MD, MBA, DFAPA, DFASAM

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The Opioid Crisis (12 User Ratings) Addiction to prescription opioids and heroin has become a national emergency. This module provides clinicians with a description of the epidemic and its effective treatments. This activity... Faculty Petros Levounis, MD, MA, DFASAM

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Screening/Testing for HCV (2 User Ratings) The USPSTF recommends screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in persons at high risk for infection. The USPSTF also recommends offering 1-time screening for HCV infection to adults born between 1945... Faculty Arthur Y-Shin Kim, MD

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Post-HCV Treatment Follow-up and Reinfection (1 User Rating) Virologic cure of hepatitis C does not mean a cure of advanced liver disease. Ongoing evaluation and management of liver disease is indicated for cirrhotic patients after achieving SVR. Non-hepatologist HCV... Faculty Takako S. Schaninger, MD

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Hep C: Issues in PWID (1 User Rating) Hepatitis C treatment is often withheld from PWID due to concerns regarding adherence, perceived lack of efficacy, and perceived risk of reinfection. PWID are a difficult to reach population leading to... Faculty Melissa K. Osborn Jenkins, MD, MS

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HCV Screening and Linkage to Care: The Norton Experience (2 User Ratings) Current CDC guidelines recommend universal screening of patients born between 1945 and 1965 as well as other patients based on risk. All eligible patients are not being screened and patients with... Faculty Jeffrey S. Reeves, MD

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Heroin And Fentanyl: Lab Perspective (5 User Ratings) 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... Faculty Susan D. Robinson, BS

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Therapeutic Use of KASPER and Urine Drug Screening and Testing in Clinical Practice (22 User Ratings) KASPER and UDS/T can be used as therapeutic clinical tools to help monitor for unintended adverse effects of prescribed opioids (and other controlled drugs with known abuse potential and increasing presence in... Faculty Michelle R. Lofwall, MD, DFASAM

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Gabapentin: Possible Misuse Leads to Scheduling in Kentucky (5 User Ratings) Concerns about abuse and diversion of gabapentin have been raised in many states, with some states considering listing gabapentin as a “drug of concern,” reportable to their prescription drug... Faculty Patricia R. Freeman, RPh, PhD, FAPhA

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Policy Solutions to the Opioid Crisis: What Have We Learned? (4 User Ratings) Opioid use disorder is an ongoing epidemic and states are enacting a range of policies to address the crisis. Health care providers need to understand how the policies impact practice and patient outcomes. Faculty Jeffery Talbert, PhD

Activity Details Credit Amounts: CME: 0.75 CPE: 0.75 CNE: 0.50 Other: 0.75 CDE: 0.75 CPHCE: 1.00 Type: Video Webcast Expires: Jul 20, 2022 Cost: Free E-mail Begin