Treatment of Tobacco & Stimulant Use Disorders
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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
Josh Blum, MD (he/him/his)
Dr. Blum is a board-certified internist and addiction medicine physician at Denver Health and Hospital Authority in Denver, CO, where he serves as the director of outpatient substance use disorder treatment. As an institutional quality officer, he leads initiatives on pain and opioid management and chairs Denver Health’s pharmacy and therapeutics committee. He is the immediate past president of the Colorado chapter of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and co-chair of the Provider Education Workgroup at the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention. He also serves on the boards of the Colorado Pain Society and the Harm Reduction Action Center. Dr. Blum attended Dartmouth College and the University of Southern California School of Medicine before completing his medicine residency at the University of Colorado.
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.
