Web-Based Course

Our newly-released on-demand modules, informed by the field-tested Improving Adolescent Health: Facilitating Change for Excellence in SBIRT Change Package, is a call to action for providers to advance YSBIRT approaches. Access our free on-demand train

PCSS clinical experts have created a new Performance-in-Practice (PIP) activity that will help you identify and address gaps in your practice treating patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).

Understand the basics of addiction, including how it affects the brain, why some people are more susceptible to developing an addiction, and how addiction can be prevented and treated.

This module features more than 60 case-based questions on pain management, safer prescribing of opioid analgesics, and the recognition and treatment of opioid use disorder. To ensure the development of high-quality, unbiased content in this module, we partnered with experts at Boston University School of Medicine's Safer/Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program.

Describes 12-step programs and how providers can help their patients get to and best use these programs, including patients taking medications for substance use disorder; up to 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (TM) for continuing education

Describes and compares pharmacological treatment options for individuals with AUD, including FDA- approved medications acamprosate, disufiram, and naltrexone, as well as two other evidence-based treatments that are not yet FDA approved, topiramate and gabapentin; includes diagnosis of AUD, definitions of binge drinking and “at risk” drinking, and a case vignette; up to 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for continuing education

Discusses the importance of language when discussing substance use and reviews ways to improve language used during clinical encounters to improve patient care

Module that describes the basic concepts of alcohol and drug use disorders, including considerations for standard drink sizes, Screening for Substance Use Disorders/Alcohol Use Disorders, and an introduction to alcohol withdrawal management

Module that includes an overview of substance use disorders;discusses neurobiological responses to substances, theories that explain the disorders, and integrated care for substance use disorder

Online course for providers on the essential components of motivational interviewing; offers 4.0 hours of continuing education credit