Email UpdatesTelehealth for Primary Care: From Policy Updates to Best Practices Webinar Recording
Reviews policy updates to telehealth services in light of COVID-19 to help primary care practices better serve their patient population via telehealth
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Substance Use Disorder Services in the Days of a Pandemic: You Need a Bigger Boat (Part 2)
Provides an update on providing telehealth services for substance use during COVID-19 and best practices for safely managing treatment during COVID-19
Substance Use Disorder Services in the Days of a Pandemic: You Need a Bigger Boat (Part 1)
Describes key considerations for implementing substance use disorder services during COVID-19, including safety precautions, ways to move all services to telehealth, reimbursement contingencies, and leadership actions
7 Ways to Legally and Ethically Expand Your Services with Evidence-Based Telehealth
Highlights key findings about implementing evidence-based telehealth services, including legal and regulatory codes and professional ethical requirements
Addressing Health Disparities in the LGBTQ+ Community
This webinar explored:
- The demographics and health care needs of the LGBTQ+ population
- Barriers to high quality health care for LGBTQ+ people and proposed solutions
- A toolkit designed to train medical school students and current providers on clinica
Public Webinar on Opioid Tapering
The Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic hosted a free public webinar on opioid tapering, utilizing experts in the field who discussed current guidance for opioid tapering, how it is applied in practice, and the strength of the evidence behind it. Five panelists presented various patient case scenarios and discussed pain management challenges through patient and caregiver perspectives, in order to inform best practices and identify evidence gaps.
Addiction & the Brain
This kid-friendly video explains how repeated substance use can hijack brain function, and the importance of delaying use until the brain has fully developed.
How to Track Treatment Progress and Adherence with the ASAM Criteria (Slides)
The slides from this informative webinar will aid drug court team members in tracking treatment progress and ensuring that participants adhere to medication in addiction treatment. jointly sponsored by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and the American Society of Addiction Medicine, this webinar was designed especially for judges, coordinators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, supervision officers, case managers, and other team members who refer, monitor, or otherwise support behavioral health treatment in drug courts.
Understanding the Opioid Crisis in the U.S. Latino Population: Implications and Recommendations
This webinar recording from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) National Hispanic and Latino Addiction Technology Transfer Center on the implications of the opioid crisis in the U.S. Latino population is now available. This webinar discussed the implications of the opioid crisis in the Latino population in the US. It discussed social and cultural factors that cause substance misuse in Latinos. Additionally, barriers to services and treatments are discussed, along with strategies on how to increase engagement and use of services.
Mental Health Peer Support in Alternative Payment Models
This webinar reviews the need for the need for alternative payment models and peer support in alternative payment models.