Addiction Medicine for Non-Specialists

Oakstone Specialty Review

A comprehensive CME program carefully designed to help non-specialists effectively screen, counsel and treat patients with substance use disorders. Ideal for MOC.

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Addiction Medicine for Non-Specialists is a case-based, comprehensive look at the most relevant information on the identification and management of substance use disorders. Led by Christopher W. Shanahan, MD, MPH, this CME course covers major substances used — alcohol, opioids, stimulants, benzodiazepines, tobacco/nicotine, and cannabis — and defines longitudinal, comprehensive and coordinated care strategies. It will help you to better:

• Define addiction in terms of it being a relapsing and chronic disease
• Distinguish between pharmacologic, medical, and behavioral strategies for opioid use treatment
• Outline approaches to identify and treat substance use in adolescents and adults
• Identify the commonly occurring infectious diseases seen in patients with addictions
• Compare prescribing patterns for patients with acute and chronic pain
• Classify psychiatric disorders that coexist with substance use disorders

QUICK FACTS

Provider: Oakstone

Course Director:
Christopher W. Shanahan, MD, MPH, FACP
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine Medical Director Massachusetts Consultation Service for Treatment of Addiction and Pain (MCSTAP)
Section of General Internal Medicine Department of Medicine
Boston Medical Center Boston, MA

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

• Describe addiction in terms of it being a relapsing and chronic disease
• Differentiate among pharmacologic, medical, and behavioral strategies for opioid use treatment
• Outline substance use identification and treatment for adolescents and adults
• Identify the commonly occurring infectious diseases seen in patients with addictions
• Compare prescribing for patients with acute pain and chronic pain
• Identify psychiatric disorders that co-occur with substance use disorders

Intended Audience

This educational activity was designed for internists, family physicians, general psychiatrists, emergency physicians, adolescent medicine doctors, pediatricians, and general neurologists.

• Addiction: A Progressive Relapsing Chronic Disease - David Fiellin, MD

• Identification and Initial Management of Unhealthy Alcohol and Other Drug Use - Richard Saitz, MD, MPH

• Harm Reduction Including Overdose and Its Prevention - Christopher W. Shanahan, MD, MPH, FACP
  

• Management of Acute Intoxication, Withdrawal, and Early Recovery, and Perioperative Care in Persons with Unsafe Use of Licit and Illicit Substances - Zoe M. Weinstein, MD, MS

• Alcohol Use Disorder: Assessment and Treatment - Richard Saitz, MD, MPH

• Opioids: Pharmacologic, Medical, and Behavioral Characteristics and Long-Term Management - Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH

• Stimulants: Pharmacologic, Medical, and Behavioral Characteristics and Long-Term Management - Alexander Y. Walley, MD, MSc

• Benzodiazepine Use Disorder - Tae Woo Park, MD

• Substance Use Across the Life Span: A Focus on Adolescent Alcohol, Nicotine, and Cannabis Use - Nicholas Chadi, MD, MPH

• Tobacco/Nicotine: Pharmacologic, Medical, and Behavioral Characteristics and Long-Term Management - Hasmeena Kathuria, MD

• Pain and Addiction: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management - Phoebe A. Cushman, MD, MS
  

• Addiction and Psychiatric Co-Morbidity - John A. Renner, Jr., MD

• Office-Based Systems for Safer Opioid Prescribing for Acute and Chronic Pain and Long-Term Treatment of Substance Use Disorder in the Primary Care Setting (Alcohol, Opioids, Stimulants, Tobacco) - Christopher W. Shanahan, MD, MPH, FACP
  

• Value-Driven Priorities for Addressing Infectious Consequences of the Opioid Crisis - Benjamin Linas, MD