Boston Medical Center (BMC) Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance (TTA)

A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals

An Overview of Methamphetamine Use Disorder

October 20, 2020
10:00 am–11:30 am ET

This training will provide an overview of methamphetamine use disorder, including epidemiology, treatment strategies, and harm reduction.

PLEASE NOTE: The information in this training is relevant to those practicing in Massachusetts only.

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Virtual meeting

Via Zoom

Description

This training will provide an overview of methamphetamine use disorder, including the epidemiology of people who use methamphetamines, stigma, strategies for managing patients who are actively using, screening for methamphetamine use, and treatment and harm reduction strategies.

Continuing education credits will be provided for social workers, pending approval, by the Simmons School of Social Work.

The Zoom link for this training is password protected. The password will be emailed to you ahead of the training.

Intended audience

Clinical instructors at the Simmons University School of Social Work

Speakers

Justin Alves, RN, ACRN, CARN

Objectives

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

Sponsored by

Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services

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Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.

Funding for Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is provided by:

Massachusetts Department of Public Health Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS)
GE Foundation
Opioid Response Network

The content on this site and the content presented by Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is intended solely to inform and educate healthcare and social service professionals, and shall not be used for medical advice and is not a substitute for the advice or treatment of a qualified medical professional. The hospital, the program, and the contributors are not acting as health care providers or professional consultants on behalf of any specific patient and disclaim establishing a provider-patient relationship with any specific patient.


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