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CPD 1: LAN MAT: What You Need to Know - An Overview of Long-acting Naltrexone (LAN)

Opioid misuse and addiction is a serious national crisis.

• Affects public health and social and economic welfare.
• Daily, more than 90 Americans die after overdosing on opioids.
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Faculty

Melanie Dicks, PharmD

CPD 2: Risky Business - Screening Patients for Substance Use Disorder

According to the Substance Use Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) nearly 80% of people with an opiate use disorder do not receive treatment. Because of this more healthcare providers need to screen...

CPD 3: Help Me Find My Way - Referring Patients to Treatment & Resources

According to the Substance Use Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) nearly 80% of people with an opiate use disorder do not receive treatment. More healthcare providers need to screen for substance...

CPD 4: Medications Used to Treat Opiate Use Disorder​

Substance use disorder (OUD) is a treatable, chronic disease that often involves cycles of relapse and remission. Individuals who are under the influence of these substances often engage in risky and...

CPD 5: Powering Recovery - Other Substance Use Disorder Treatments

According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, addiction is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and...

CPD 6: Pain & Promise - Pain Management and Patient Contracts

Higher opioid prescribing puts patients at risk for addiction and overdose. According to the CDC (2016) since 1999 more than 165,000 people have died of an overdose related to prescription opioids and as many...

CPD 7: Crosstalk - Communicating and Addressing Patient Challenges

Substance use disorder (SUD) is a treatable, chronic disease that often involves cycles of relapse and remission due to complex interactions in the brain, heredities, and an individual’s environment...

Beacons of Hope: Discussing Naloxone with Patients

Current primary care practice sites are ripe with patients who may need naloxone as a reversal agent to be used in the event of an opioid overdose or emergency. Primary care providers need additional education...

Weighing the Odds: LAN MAT Risks & Benefits

Current primary care practice sites are rarely providing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) as part of the comprehensive care needed for patients who suffer from substance use disorder (SUD) and are seen in...

KyPQC: Mamatoto Village - The Movement of Collective Care

The Mamatoto Village describes a community-based integrated care program focused on improving the health status and outcomes for black families in Washington, DC. The program has several important key...

KyPQC: Intimate Partner Violence and Maternal Mortality & Morbidity in Kentucky

This presentation examines the intricate relationship between substance use disorder, mental health conditions, and intimate partner violence as contributing factors to maternal mortality and injury....

KyPQC: Hot Topics: New AIM Bundle; Postpartum Depression/SUD Screening; Newborn Screening

This session includes segments with overlapping coverage of screening programs aimed at identifying mental health conditions and substance use disorder in patients presenting to labor and delivery departments...

KyPQC: Preventing Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) describes the constellation of signs and symptoms associated with intrauterine substance exposure. In Kentucky, NAS is a reportable condition that is analyzed and published...

Tips for Prescribing/Dispensing Controlled Substances Within the Law

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

Reducing Stigma: The Past, Present and Future of Recovery

Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for...

The Beautiful Boy

Health care providers, family members, and friends need to have the skills to prevail over the anger and hopelessness that is felt when dealing with the affliction of addiction by utilizing "great...

Therapeutic Use of KASPER and Urine Drug Screening and Testing in Clinical Practice