Session Description:
This lecture series will cover the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of both chronic pain syndromes and substance use disorders and their overlap over 6 sessions. Two of the sessions will focus on application of best practices in doctor-patient communication to facilitate optimized patient outcomes through shared decision-making.
Target Audience:
Physicians (MD or DO)
Learning Objectives- After Attending this Activity, Learners Should be Able to:
• Discuss how addiction is a complex, chronic, biopsychosocial illness that is different from other “diseases”.
• Recognize that large numbers of humans live along a continuum of behavioral dependence, with substance use disorders lying at the extreme of this continuum. • Summarize the neurobiology of Severe Substance Use Disorders.
• Demonstrate the ability to diagnose a substance use disorder.
• Empathize with the patient perspectives and be motivated to help patients with substance use disorders.
Providing Culturally Appropriate Care which is Free of Implicit Biases (AB 1195 & 241):
- NIDA. 2023, April 27. Social Determinants of Health Can’t Be Extricated from Addiction Science. Retrieved from https://nida.nih.gov/about-nida/noras-blog/2023/04/social-determinants-health-cant-be-extricated-addiction-science on 2023, October 9
- Farahmand, P., Arslaan, A., & Bradley, M. (2020). Systemic racism and substance use disorders. Psychiatric Annals; 50(11):494-498. https://doi.org/10.3928/00485713-20201008-01
- Ashford, R., Brown, A., & Curtis, B. (2018). The language of substance use and recovery: Novel use of the go/no-go association task to measure implicit bias. Health Communication; 34(11). https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2018.1481709
- Sun, M., Oliwa, T., Peek, M., & Tung, E. (2022). Negative patient descriptors: Documenting racial bias in the electronic health record. Health Affairs; 41(2). https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01423
Disclosure of Financial or In-Kind Commercial Support & Conflict of Interest
No one involved in the planning or presentation of this educational activity have any relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. No financial or in-kind commercial support was received to produce or promote this educational activity.
– Provider Designee/Verification: Kerri Maya, MSL, RN
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Physician Credit
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.00 Non-Physician Participation Credit
Sutter Health designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 Non-Physician Participation Credit. Non-Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits HOURS™ Continuing Medical Education is acceptable for meeting the continuing education requirements for Pharmacists, Physician Assistants, Psychologists, Registered Nurses, and Respiratory Care Practitioners. For other disciplines, please check with the regulatory board for your discipline to confirm what type of credits meet the continuing education requirements. Continuing education hours for nurses accredited by ANCC, via Joint Accreditation.

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