A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
October 15, 2020
6:00 pm–7:30 pm ET
This session will lay the foundation for the care and treatment of patients with substance use disorders. It will review the current overdose epidemic and its particular impact in the Brockton community.
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Changing the Outcomes of Substance Use in Brockton series.
This session will lay the foundation for the care and treatment of patients with substance use disorders. It will review the current overdose epidemic and its particular impact in the Brockton community. It is geared at defining addiction as a disease, identifying stigma related to addiction and its impact on treatment, and recognizing evidence-based treatment for addiction. There will be a question and answer period
*CME credits pending approval*
HEALing Communities study healthcare staff in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Develop a basic understanding of:
- Substance use disorders as chronic medical conditions
- Overview of current epidemic
- Impact of stigma
- Role of medication treatment
- Role of collaborative care
Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS), HEALing Communities study, Grayken Center for Addiction, and Boston Medical Center Office Based Addiction Treatment and Technical Assistance (BMC OBAT TTA).
Boston Medical Center grants 1.50 hours to all nurses who attend, complete the evaluation, and complete the post test. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Boston University School of Social Work which is authorized through the MA state board of Social Work to provide 1.50 CE Credit Hours.
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.