COE: Current Trends in SUD and Recovery

April 24, 2024

The session will discuss current trends in overdose and treatment utilization through an equity lens by examining how recent overdose trends disproportionately impact different demographic groups, highlighting disparities in access to treatment and outcomes. The session will also discuss trends in common adulterants and their contribution to injection related wounds by exploring the increasing prevalence of harmful adulterants in drugs and their significant role in exacerbating the risk and severity of injection-related wounds.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Impact of Substance Use Disorder
  4. Overdose Trends
    1. Disparity in Overdose
    2. Trends in Non-Fatal Overdoses
    3. Disparity in Non-Fatal Overdoses
    4. Regional Overdose Trends
  5. Substance Use Trends
    1. Resources for Trends
    2. Polysubstance Use
    3. Common Street Drugs
    4. Tobacco Use Trends
    5. New and Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
  6. Trends in Treatment
    1. Trends in Treatment Access 
    2. Disparity in SUD Treatment
    3. Fentanyl Vaccine
    4. Other Trends in Treatment
    5. Approaches to Addressing New Psychoactive Substances
    6. Prescribing Trends
  7. Other Trends
    1. Depression
    2. Suicide
    3. Solutions for the Current Mental Health Crisis
    4. Wounds

 

 

Target Audience

  • Nurse
  • Physician
  • Social Worker

Learning Objectives

• Describe the current trends in overdose and treatment utilization through an equity lens.
• Discuss trends in common adulterants including their contribution to injection-related wounds.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
04/24/2024
Course expires: 
08/31/2024
Event starts: 
04/24/2024 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
04/24/2024 - 1:30pm EDT

The session will discuss current trends in overdose and treatment utilization through an equity lens by examining how recent overdose trends disproportionately impact different demographic groups, highlighting disparities in access to treatment and outcomes. The session will also discuss trends in common adulterants and their contribution to injection related wounds by exploring the increasing prevalence of harmful adulterants in drugs and their significant role in exacerbating the risk and severity of injection-related wounds.

Agenda:

  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Impact of Substance Use Disorder
  4. Overdose Trends
    1. Disparity in Overdose
    2. Trends in Non-Fatal Overdoses
    3. Disparity in Non-Fatal Overdoses
    4. Regional Overdose Trends
  5. Substance Use Trends
    1. Resources for Trends
    2. Polysubstance Use
    3. Common Street Drugs
    4. Tobacco Use Trends
    5. New and Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
  6. Trends in Treatment
    1. Trends in Treatment Access 
    2. Disparity in SUD Treatment
    3. Fentanyl Vaccine
    4. Other Trends in Treatment
    5. Approaches to Addressing New Psychoactive Substances
    6. Prescribing Trends
  7. Other Trends
    1. Depression
    2. Suicide
    3. Solutions for the Current Mental Health Crisis
    4. Wounds
Zoom Meeting
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Julie Brewer, MSW

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and The Jewish Healthcare Foundation. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 continuing education credits.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Social Work (ASWB)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Social Work Education activity is 1.25 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.25 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.25 ASWB
  • 1.25 Attendance
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