Mind and Substance: Best Practices for Primary Care Providers Series (Part 1)

Join the Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) and the Pennsylvania Association for Community Health Centers(PACHC) for a two part primary provider series.

Primary care is increasingly becoming the front line resource for behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment. While the need is clear, clinical teams often face massive hurdles — from time constraints and fragmented workflows to complex prescribing anxieties and uncertainty around drug screenings. This comprehensive, two-part virtual series is designed to eliminate those challenges. This series provides primary care teams with actionable, structured workflows and evidence-based clinical protocols. From standardizing rapid screening tools to navigating complex dual-diagnosis patients and prescribing scenarios, participants will gain the concrete tools needed to deliver seamless and life-saving care.

Learning Objectives

• Optimize Screening Infrastructure: Evaluate current practice workflows to systematically integrate validated screening tools
• Execute the Full SBIRT Spectrum: Transition from "screening only" to full SBIRT utilization
• Establish Viable Referral Pathways: Map available site resources (e.g., embedded behavioral health, care managers) against external networks to construct reliable, warm-handoff referral pathways for patients requiring specialized care
• Deconstruct and Interpret UDS Panels: Accurately interpret urine drug screen (UDS) results, confidently distinguishing true positives/negatives from common cross-reactivities and false positives to guide objective clinical decisions
• Manage Dual Diagnoses: Safely initiate, titrate, and monitor psychiatric medications and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) — such as buprenorphine and naltrexone — in patients presenting with active, co-occurring substance use
• Mitigate Prescribing Risks and Judgments: Formulate clinical strategies to manage drug-drug interactions, diversion risks, and monitoring requirements to improve retention in care
• Appreciate Specialized Perinatal Protocols (PPW): Apply tailored screening and prescribing algorithms specifically designed for the pregnant and postpartum population, balancing maternal clinical stability with fetal and neonatal safety

*Contact Hour Eligibility

In order to be eligible for the contact hours/certificate of attendance, you must join the live training in the Zoom platform.

Contact Hours (Certificate of Attendance): up to 1 for attending each of the trainings.