
Colorado ROOTS Rural Addiction Care Keynote
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Course Overview
Course Content
Credits
* AMA PRA Category 1™ credits are used by physicians and other groups like PAs and certain nurses. Category 1 credits are accepted by the ACCME, ARDMS, CCI, and Sonography Canada.
Course Details
- Duration
- 1.00 hour
- Released
- Jul 16, 2024
- Last Review
- Apr 10, 2025
- Expires
- Jul 16, 2027
Objectives
Analyze the unique challenges and characteristics of addiction in rural communities, including the social, economic, and healthcare-related factors that contribute to substance use disorders.
Examine addiction as a chronic, treatable disease, and identify differences between types of treatment and recovery services.
Explore medication treatments for opioid and other substance use disorders and determine the appropriate level of care based on patient-centered factors.
Evaluate provided treatment and recovery resources to integrate into future staff education.
Target Audience
Eastern Plains Physicians, Nurses and other Clinical Staff
Faculty & Disclosure
Faculty
Don Stader, MD, FACEP
Dr. Stader is the founder and president of Stader Opioid Consultants and an emergency and addiction medicine physician. He is the founder and Executive Director of The Naloxone Project, a nonprofit organization that engages hospitals in providing overdose education and naloxone distribution. Dr. Stader leads several state- and nation- wide projects targeted at harm reduction and substance use disorder treatment.
Disclosure
No planners, speakers, or anyone in control of the content have relevant financial disclosures.
Accreditation
Accreditation: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS) through the joint providership of Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass) and Stader Opioid Consultants (SOC). Compass Healthcare Collaborative is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation: Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass) designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Commercial Support: This activity was developed without support from any ineligible company. *The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.
Disclosure: Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass) adheres to the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. The content of this activity is not related to products or the business lines of an ACCME-defined ineligible company. None of the planners or moderators for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing products used by or on patients.
Note: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are accepted for nursing and other healthcare discipline license renewal purposes, provided the topic is relevant to the applicant’s field or discipline. After participating, you will receive a Certificate of Attendance detailing the number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ you can claim. This certificate is provided for self-reporting requirements and must be submitted to your state board for license renewal. Compass always recommends checking with your state board to confirm the acceptance of credit.

