These lessons are meant to teach Addiction Medicine in a manner that is practical for any clinician whether it being an MD/DO/PA/NP. There is a plethora of information out there from good resources, but sometimes, the science, lectures, and recommendations do not clearly translate on what to do in “real life” and practical terms. These lessons are meant to help put everything together.
What is Addiction exactly?
We’ll teach the fundamentals of addiction in a practical and effective way. This course will help explain the neurobiology of addiction and connect it to clinical implications.
Addiction Tx Providers
These lessons present an overview of addiction treatment. They simplify the ASAM criteria and help guide you regarding referrals for all types of addiction.
Inpatient Opioid Detox
This course breakdowns opioid detoxification management and clinical course. It is meant to guide a clinician so that they can make safe and smart decisions.
Inpatient Alcohol & Benzo Detox
This course breakdowns sedative-hypnotic detoxification management and clinical course. It is meant to guide a clinician so that they can make safe and smart decisions.
Opioid Treatment Providers
These lessons discuss the FDA approved medications for outpatient opioid use disorder. Go through the lessons as they will improve your adeptness of opioid treatment.
Alcohol Treatment Providers
These lessons discuss the 3 FDA approved medications for Alcohol use disorder as well as mood stabilizers for outpatient alcohol treatment.
Acute & Chronic Pain and Addiction
Whether it's tapering a patient off of opioid treatment or treating a patient with comorbid chronic pain and addiction this course will help guide you.
Ambulatory Detoxification
This guide will discuss outpatient ambulatory detoxification for sedative-hypnotics such as alcohol-and benzodiazepines and opioids and opiates.
Drug And Urine Testing
This guide will help you interpret and understand the nuances of drug and urine testing. These lessons are made so that you can reference back to it when stumped in clinical practice.
Addiction And Pregnancy
Addiction and pregnancy may complicate the normal course of treatment. This course was written to simplify treatment of substance use disorder in pregnant patients.
Clinical Pearls for Addiction
These lessons present miscellaneous (but need to know) clinical scenarios commonly seen with addiction medicine patients.
Bioethics and Law in Addiction
These lessons presents common bioethical and law concepts. This information is valuable to anyone taking the Addiction Medicine Board Examination.
What makes a drug illegal?
These lessons are meant to give you a glimpse of a geopolitical reasons of what makes a drug illegal. It is meant to bring up history so the same erros aren't repeated.
Note Templates for Detox
This course is ideal for any clinician who recently started working with addiction medicine patients. It even provides basic note templates to use for dot phrases.