A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
January 6, 2020
12:30 pm–4:30 pm ET
This four-hour training provides a fundamental understanding of the medications used to treat substance use disorders.
Boston Medical Center - Crosstown Building
801 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor
Room 2128
Boston, MA
This training will provide staff supporting patients being treated with medications for substance use disorders within a multidisciplinary team with a fundamental understanding of the medications and provide strategies on how to address the stigma associated with being on medications for addictions treatment.
Check-in for the course will run from 12:00 - 12:30 PM, and the course will run from 12:30 - 4:30 PM.
Continuing education credits for Social Workers, Recovery Coaches (CARC), LADCs, and CADCs are pending.
This is an in-person training. There will not be an option to attend via webinar.
Staff in roles including, but not limited to, counselors, recovery coaches, wellness advocates, community health workers, etc. throughout the continuum of care.
The learner will: understand the substance use disorders as diseases; describe current disease trends/the opioid epidemic; explain the role of medication treatment; describe the fundamentals of the medications available; discuss the impact of stigma; practice a team-based approach to support patients on MAT; recommend supports when a client/patient is not ready for treatment; and counsel on harm reduction and overdose prevention.
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Addiction Services
Approval of continuing education credits is pending.
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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