Opioid Overdose Prevention is a full-day, interactive workshop that will introduce participants to the neurobiology of opioid addiction, focusing on the brain changes resulting from long-term opioid use and the implications for addiction treatment. This workshop will examine the risk factors for opioid overdose as well as the strategies for addressing these risks. Time will be spent discussing client education and counseling designed to reduce risks for opioid relapses and overdoses and how to integrate trauma-informed strategies into discussions with your clients. Finally, participants will be trained on how to use Narcan for reversing an opioid overdose. Lecture, discussion, case studies and exercises will be used to help participant’s gain knowledge and skills important in facing the current opioid epidemic. Registration fee includes a continental breakfast and lunch. Early bird fee $50.00 if paid by August 23rd.
Opioids
Opioid Overdose Prevention is a full-day, interactive workshop that will introduce participants to the neurobiology of opioid addiction, focusing on the brain changes resulting from long-term opioid use and the implications for addiction treatment. This workshop will examine the risk factors for opioid overdose as well as the strategies for addressing these risks. Time will be spent discussing client education and counseling designed to reduce risks for opioid relapses and overdoses and how to integrate trauma-informed strategies into discussions with your clients. Finally, participants will be trained on how to use Narcan for reversing an opioid overdose. Lecture, discussion, case studies and exercises will be used to help participant’s gain knowledge and skills important in facing the current opioid epidemic. Registration fee includes continental breakfast and lunch. Early bird registration fee $50.00 if paid by August 23rd.
Exploring Self-Injury: Harm Reduction Tips: Self-injury is a common and
In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore why individuals introduce pain to their bodies, and to practice sitting with discomfort with our own and others’ experiences. The presenters will discuss the many forms of introducing pain to one’s person, and provide information on safer methods to avoid infection or lethal injury, including tips to build kits to support safer methods.
How to Open and Operate a Peer-Run, Low-Cost, and Low-Barrier
Recovery House: This workshop on recovery-oriented housing will serve to educate peers and providers on process to open a recovery house, as well as the law surrounding it. Particular attention will be devoted to the law, and attendees will learn about how and why recovery-oriented housing is a civil right recognized by the federal government.
Recognizing At Risk Drinking Habits: This workshop will explore assessment tools and give participants insight to their drinking habits, and offer alternative skills to manage problematic behaviors.
How to identify, respond to, and risk factors of an opioid overdose: This workshop will teach you the skills to be able to recognize and help a person experiencing an opioid overdose. You will also learn factors that increase your risk of an opioid overdose.
Please join Eric Haram and Lisa Letourneau for this half-day, action-oriented session on Monday, August 20, 2018 to explore the essentials of identifying risk factors, screening, and treatment of individuals with Opioid Use Disorder. As Maine continues to face an epidemic of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and drug overdose deaths, it is essential for behavioral health and health care clinicians and organizational teams to understand the factors that contribute to individual and population risk for developing OUD, as well as ways to identify and treat individuals with this too-often deadly condition. Registration fee includes a continental breakfast.
Adcare Educational Institute, in partnership with Casco Bay CAN, is excited to bring to Maine, Mark S. Gold, MD,( click here for Bio ) a world-renowned expert on addiction-related diseases, who has worked for over 40 years to develop models of understanding on the effects of tobacco, cocaine, and other drugs, as well as food, on the brain and behavior. Using neuroscience to understand the critical role of prevention and the treatment of substance use disorders has been a major focus of Dr. Golds career. This training session will offer an engaging primer on the neuroscience of addiction and smoking. Dr. Gold has studied tobacco, cannabis, opiates, cocaine, and other substances of abuse and he provides an engaging overview of lessons learned and advances in neuroscience research. Early Bird fee pay $45.00 by September 10th. Fee includes continental breakfast and lunch.
The opioid class of drugs has been front and center in two public health crises facing our society and the medical professions. On the one side there are millions of Americans who are debilitated by chronic pain and the suboptimal options for managing it. On the other side, we have persistent challenges associated with various chemicals that society takes recreationally and at times compulsively. These include the opioid class of drugs such as heroin and prescription painkillers. A fascinating part to this story is the neuroscience behind the natural opioid (endorphins) and their receptors that are found in all vertebrate brains including humans. This talk will delve into the neurobiology of opioids while connecting it to evolution, social behaviors and the community, ultimately offering some suggestions for addressing the crises. Registration fee includes breakfast and lunch.
Opiate and Medication Misuse in Seniors will address the challenges and barriers in identifying elders who may be misusing or abusing opiates and other medications. Join Dr. Fingerman as she discusses the effects of these medications on the aging brain and body and the differences between symptoms of addiction compared to symptoms of aging and cognitive decline. Registration fee $30.00 if paid by March 15th.
An interactive workshop that will introduce participants to the neurobiology of opioid addiction, focusing on the brain changes resulting from long-term opioid use and the implications for addiction treatment. This workshop will examine the risk factors for opioid overdose as well as the strategies for addressing these risks. Time will be spent discussing client education and counseling designed to reduce risks for opioid relapses and overdoses and how to integrate trauma-informed strategies into discussions with your clients. Finally, participants will be trained on how to use Narcan for reversing an opioid overdose. Lecture, discussion, case studies and exercises will be used to help participant’s gain knowledge and skills important in facing the current opioid epidemic.
Interactive workshop that will introduce participants to the neurobiology of opioid addiction, focusing on the brain changes resulting from long-term opioid use and the implications for addiction treatment. This workshop will examine the risk factors for opioid overdose as well as the strategies for addressing these risks. Time will be spent discussing client education and counseling designed to reduce risks for opioid relapses and overdoses and how to integrate trauma-informed strategies into discussions with your clients. Finally, participants will be trained on how to use Narcan for reversing an opioid overdose. Lecture, discussion, case studies and exercises will be used to help participant’s gain knowledge and skills important in facing the current opioid epidemic
This conference will provide attendees with an overview of current practices in the Maine Criminal Justice and First Responder System; practices of the Maine Veterans Administration, community treatment provider system and military and community support networks.