Medical Considerations for People with Substance Use Disorder

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