VIDEO TRAINING
Understanding Opioid Use Disorder
This video includes an in-depth interview with Dr. Halligan regarding her experience working in the trenches as an Addiction Psychiatrist during the last two heart-breaking decades of the opioid epidemic.
She discusses how stigma and lack of addiction training in medicine have pushed patients toward treatment that doesn’t work, such as detox, abstinence and behavior therapy alone, resulting in unnecessary suffering and death.
She compares and contrasts the 3 FDA approved medications used to treat Opioid Use Disorder, demonstrates the supporting research behind each medication and discusses how to present these 3 options to your patients and help them choose the right option for them. This video emphasizes Methadone and Buprenorphine as the two FDA approved medications best known to decrease mortality and relapse.
The video discusses prescriber resistance to Buprenorphine and actually describes this medication as very straight-forward, uncomplicated and hugely effective, making it user friendly.
This video involves several case presentations, including a mock buprenorphine home induction, showing sample home induction instructions that may be given to patients.
Dr. Halligan answers many questions that typically arise during long term Buprenorphine treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (i.e. relapse, pregnancy, patient refuses counseling, urine screen positive for other drugs, etc.).
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VIDEO LENGTH: 75 MIN
CME CREDITS: 1.25