Addiction Medicine for Non-Specialists

• 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

After viewing this program, the participant will be better 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

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

• Date of Original Release: August 1, 2019

• Date of Credit Termination: August 1, 2022

• Estimated Time to Complete: 12.5 hours