This PCSS-O session will outline efforts of the NIH Pain Consortium to improve pain treatment and reduce prescription opioid abuse. These efforts include partnering with the CDC in its creation of national opioid prescribing guidelines, development of a National Pain Strategy, leading a comprehensive review on opioids for the treatment of chronic pain through the NIH Pathways to Prevention program, and improving clinical pain education through its Centers of Excellence in Pain Education.
- November 16, 2016
- David A. Thomas, Ph.D.
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Federal regulations recently made a significant change to the number of patients qualified buprenorphine prescribers can treat. Now what?
Whether you have already received a waiver to prescribe to 100 patients, or you are just getting started in the process of obtaining a waiver to prescribe, you need to know how to navigate this exciting development.
- November 8, 2016
- Jinhee Lee, PharmD
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This presentation will describe the ECHO experience with SUDs and the recent replication of teleECHO programs for SUDs in several states and countries. It will describe the steps involved in launching an ECHO program to expand access to SUD treatment.
- July 12, 2016
- Miriam Komaromy, M.D., FACP, FASAM
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This webinar will review the proposed death sub-category, “death from drug self-intoxication,” as a surveillance strategy for improving accurate detection of a preventable death. Clinical translations of this concept, including empirical opportunities to elicit self-harm/suicide risk and to intervene with patients and families seeking treatment in a variety of clinical practice settings, will be presented.
- June 21, 2016
- Ian Rockett, Ph.D., M.P.H.; Hilary Connery, M.D., Ph.D.
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This session will describe a model of care, “Collaborative Opioid Prescribing (CoOP),” that links opioid treatment programs (OTPs) expertise with office-based buprenorphine (OBB) prescribers.
- June 14, 2016
- Kenneth B. Stoller, M.D.
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This webinar will introduce a step-by-step, mind-body approach that integrates advances in rehabilitation medicine with psychodynamic, behavioral, and mindfulness-based techniques.
- June 1, 2016
- Ronald D. Siegel, Psy.D
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This session will discuss the evidence showing that addiction produces changes in the brain; summarize NIH-funded research on medication assisted treatment; Review the FDA-approved medications for alcoholism as well as the cost benefits; Discuss some of the reasons given for non-prescription of relapse prevention medication and compare health benefits to other treatments.
- May 10, 2016
- Charles O’Brien, M.D.
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The session will review the first long-term follow up of medication-assisted treatment of patients addicted to prescription pain medication.
- April 26, 2016
- Roger D. Weiss, M.D.
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This session will provide an overview of the evidence supporting the VA-Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Substance Use Disorders and specific recommendations relevant to opioid use disorder care. Discussion will focus on anticipating barriers to evidence-based treatment of OUD.
- April 12, 2016
- Karen Drexler, M.D.
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This webinar will describe recent trends in CJS populations and intersections with the US opioid epidemic, detail clinical trials examining the application of MAT in CJS populations, and give context to recent and proposed policies impacting CJS and opioid use disorders.
- March 8, 2016
- Joshua D. Lee, M.D., M.Sc.
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