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Virtual meeting

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Description

This training is appropriate for all health care organization staff, including non-clinicians. The training covers methamphetamine use disorder, its options for treatment, and harm reduction strategies for patients who continue to use methamphetamines and their caregivers.

Intended audience

Staff and affiliates of Boston Medical Center's ICU.

Speakers

Justin Alves, RN, MSN, ACRN, CARN, CNE

Justin is a Clinical Nurse Educator for Boston Medical Center's OBAT TTA team, with specific expertise in infectious disease and their co-occurrence with substance use disorders, community outreach, and harm reduction. He serves as an expert on OBAT TTA's SUD Care Continuum ECHO team and sits on the item writing committee for the Addictions Nursing Certification Board. Justin has dedicated his career to caring for patients living with HIV/AIDS and suffering from substance use disorders across the continuum of care. He is an AIDS Certified Registered Nurse, a Certified Addictions Registered Nurse, and a member of the Gamma Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau. Justin received his BSN from Northeastern University in 2013 and received his MSN, with a focus in nursing education, from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2020.

Zoe Weinstein, MD, MS

Zoe M. Weinstein MD,MS, is a general internist and a graduate of the Boston University Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Her clinical work and research are focused on long-term Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) with buprenorphine, as well as the integration of addiction treatment with primary care and inpatient medical care. She is the director of Boston Medical Center’s Addiction Consult Service and Associate Director of the Grayken Addiction Medicine Fellowship.

Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify the role of psychostimulants in the overdose epidemic
• Describe the difference between methamphetamine intoxication, overdose, and withdrawal
• Recognize at least two evidence-based treatments for patients with a methamphetamine use disorder
• Apply harm reduction and de-escalation principles to promote safety for patients who continue to use methamphetamines and their caregivers

Sponsored by

Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS).

Accreditation information

Boston Medical Center grants 1.00 hours to all nurses who attend and complete the evaluation. 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.

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