A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
September 24, 2020
9:00 am–12:00 pm ET
This training provides a fundamental understanding of the medications used to treat substance use disorders.
Via Zoom
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This training will provide staff supporting patients being treated with medications for substance use disorders within a multidisciplinary team with a fundamental understanding of the medications and provide strategies on how to address the stigma associated with being on medications for addictions treatment.
This training will be held via Zoom and is password protected. The password will be emailed to you ahead of the training.
Staff in peer support roles including counselors, recovery coaches, wellness advocates, community health workers, etc., throughout the continuum of substance use disorder care in Massachusetts.
Charmaine Lastimoso, MSN, MPH, NP-C, is a Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Educator for the Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) Program at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine with clinical expertise in homeless health and complex care coordination.
Katie Raftery, CARC, CMAKatie identifies as a mom in long-term recovery on medication. She utilitizes her lived experience to coach and support substance exposed families at MGH's HOPE Clinic.
Theresa RolleyTheresa Rolley is a Wellness and Recovery Advocate on the Addiction Consult Service Team at Boston Medical Center. She is also a facilitator of SMART Recovery and an advocate for sex trafficking victims; she previously directed a program for women and children exiting out of sexual exploitation at the EVA Center in Boston, MA.
The learner will: understand the substance use disorders as diseases; describe current disease trends/the opioid epidemic; explain the role of medication treatment; describe the fundamentals of the medications available; discuss the impact of stigma; practice a team-based approach to support patients on MAT; recommend supports when a client/patient is not ready for treatment; and counsel on harm reduction and overdose prevention.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Addiction Services
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.
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.