Sponsor: Grayken Center for Addiction TTA, a program of Boston Medical Center
Description
This training will review medical conditions commonly seen in people using substances.
This training satisfies 1.00 hours of the required 8 hours of training for DEA-registered practitioners.
Objectives
Following this training, participants will have the knowledge necessary to:
- Recognize skin and soft tissue infections in people who inject drugs.
- Identify risk factors and risk groups for Hepatitis C and HIV.
- Describe prevention interventions for HCV and HIV, including effective addiction treatment, harm reduction and behavioral risk reduction, and antiviral agents.
- Discuss how treatment regimens for both HCV and HIV are highly effective in patients with OUD and can be safely used with opioid agonist and partial agonist therapy.
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This is an open ended event
- Cost:
- no costs