On-Demand - Women, Babies & the Opioid Epidemic

Please note this is an on-demand course. You must complete the course within 365 days of purchasing.

This presentation starts with the basics of opioid dependence--recognition, diagnosis and treatment, as well as an update on the current epidemic of overdose deaths and their causes. It explores gender-specific issues of opioid use disorders, and covers Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT). The content will include the use of standard diagnostic criteria, screening tools, current psychopharmacological interventions and a broad range of evidence-based and best-practice therapeutic and theoretical strategies.

This presentation will highlight the initiative begun in 2010 at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. A multidisciplinary team there has developed an initiative to improve with quality of care of infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. Key interventions included standardized nonpharmacologic care coupled with an empowering message to parents, a novel approach to assessment, administration of morphine only on an as-needed basis, and transfer of infants directly to the inpatient unit, bypassing the NICU.

Trainers: Charles Atkins, MD & Matthew Grossman, MD