Assessment and Effective Treatment of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorders

✅ About this Course

Enhance Your Approach to Substance Use Disorders with Online CME

In addition to an emphasis on alcohol use disorder — especially the underlying neurobiology and medication intervention — this online CME course explores opioid use disorder, medication treatment options and how best to use them, and at-risk subpopulations. Assessment and Effective Treatment of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorders is psychiatry continuing medical education that takes an in-depth look at:

Nonmedication treatment options, including behavioral strategies and pharmacological interventions

The role of psychotherapy, referral to AA, and SMART Recovery

Helping family members of patients with substance use disorders

Techniques to deal with the unmotivated patient’s denial, ambivalence, and reluctance to change, demonstrating how to motivate, persuade and confront effectively

Assessment and treatment of patients with co-occurring disorders such as trauma