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Course Overview

Uncertainty about laws and supported treatment strategies often leave patients experiencing Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) mistreated and under-treated. This course aims to clarify supported treatment methods used in Emergency Departments to support better health outcomes.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand the regulation around MAT in the ED and hospital
  • Learn an algorithm for starting MAT & understand its supporting research
  • Discuss operational solutions to challenges around continuity of care
  • Gain the tools to implement harm reduction strategies such as Naloxone distribution

Duration: 45 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 CME/CEU through the American Academy of Family Physicians through November 17, 2023

 

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Details

Mode of Delivery:
  • Online (self-paced)

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Advancing Racial Equity in the Substance Use Field

This two-part pre-recorded racial equity training series focused on the substance use field includes:

  1. The Opioid Response Network: Developing a Shared Language For Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (66 minutes)

  2. Systemic Racism and Substance Use Disorder: Anti-Racist Strategies (72 minutes)

Motivation and Health Behavior Changes

Service providers seek to understand what motivates clients to change and improve their health.

Breastfeeding Exposed

With the use of current technology we know more than ever that breastfeeding is about more than nutrition.  Technological advances in nanotechnology, epigenetics, ultrasound, infant brain imaging and the human microbiome have given us critical information.  With all the knowledge that we have, practices need to change as well.  Changes in simple practices can lead to increased success for women

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Who we are

The Western Region Public Health Training Center is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health is a Designated Multiple Event Provider of Continuing Education Contact Hours (CECH) for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) through the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. The Western Region Public Health Training Center is an organizational member of the True Health Initiative

Funding Statement

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under UB6HP31687 and the Regional Public Health Training Center Program for $1,013,453. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

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