Virtual meeting
Via Zoom
Description
This training explores the associations between overdose and trauma, including the post-traumatic stress disorder developed by those who either experience or witness an overdose. Participants will also understand how to integrate considerations for these traumas into their patient-care and communication of overdose harms.
The Overdose Prevention Series is a 4-part series for healthcare professionals to recognize the risk factors for overdose, as well as interventions for preventing and respond to overdose. The interdisciplinary health-care team will identify methods for implementing treatment interventions addressing the grief, loss, and trauma associated with surviving a personal overdose or death of a loved one. Further, participants will analyze the guilt often experienced by overdose survivors and the complex emotions of grief and loss experienced by healthcare providers, co-workers and loved ones who care for someone who has succumbed to overdose death.This series will discuss risk factors for overdose among medically underrepresented communities, such as with older adults and other medically complex patients, who require thoughtful interventions due to a variety of unique socio-economic variables.
Participants who complete the evaluation within 2 weeks of training completion may access their certificate of training completion and requested CEU certificate.
Intended audience
Medical providers, nurses, social workers, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors (LADC), Certified Alcohol/Drug Counselors (CADC), Community Health Workers (CHW), recovery coaches, counselors, Licensed Mental health Counselors (LMHC), and members of the community.
Speakers
Amy Yule, MD
Dr. Amy Yule is board certified in adult, child, and addiction psychiatry. She is the Director of Adolescent Addiction Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Yule works with youth with substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric disorders as well as their family in a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic. She also has NIH funding to examine interventions to prevent substance use disorders in youth with psychiatric disorders.
Objectives
Upon completion of the training, participants will have the knowledge necessary to:
- Recognize the impact drug overdoses have on healthcare staff.
- Recognize psychological trauma as a consideration when addressing the spectrum of overdose harms, including signs and symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
- Describe suggested procedures to follow in supporting healthcare staff after a patient drug overdose death.
Sponsored by
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction TTA, Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS)
Funding for out of state attendees is provided by the Opioid Response Network (ORN).
Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI083343 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Credits
- CME (1.00)
- Nursing (1.00)
- Social work (1.00)
- LADC (1.00)
- CADC (1.00)
- Recovery coach (1.00)
- LMHC (1.00)
Visit the BMC Grayken Center for Addiction TTA website for accreditation information and to register: https://www.addictiontraining.org/training/register/event/?category=141&date=&type=&start=1&id=1391&pkIDed=1480
