A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
April 10, 2019
12:00 pm–4:00 pm ET
This training will prepare medical staff for the implementation of H4742, An Act for Prevention and Access to Appropriate Care & Treatment of Addiction.
Department of Correction
50 Maple Street
Milford, MA
Treatment with FDA-approved medication (MOUD) is the standard of care for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). Although the evidence shows that the use of medications improves outcomes and reduces morbidity and mortality for individuals with OUD, especially during the high-risk 30-day post-incarceration period, MOUD is not uniformly available inmates in our correctional settings.
This training will prepare medical staff for the implementation of H4742, An Act for Prevention and Access to Appropriate Care & Treatment of Addiction.
Lunch will be served.
This event is for medical staff in the Massachusetts Department of Correction.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction; Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
The application to award contact hours has been submitted to Boston Medical Center. Boston Medical Center is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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.
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