CE / Trainer course
The Opioid Public Health Crisis
Course Overview
This course provides foundational knowledge of the national opioid health crisis. It is ideal for individuals, parents, healthcare professionals, groups and organizations who serve individuals at risk of opioid misuse and work to prevent and reduce the effects of this epidemic.
The training course provides the necessary information to understand and address the potential misuse of opioids, risk factors, and suggested prevention and reduction methods.
What You Will Learn
- Acquire an in-depth understanding of the opioid public health crisis—what is ocurring.
- Explain how the health crisis developed, the contributors and risk factors.
- Identify the multi-faceted solutions model that states and communities are applying to reduce the effects of the health crisis and the actions an individual/professional can take to improve the outcomes.
Course Outline
- Drug Classifications
- Brief Review of Addiction / Substance Use Disorder
- Opioid Overview
a. The Opioid Family of Drugs
b. Opioid Misuse and Addiction - The Overdose Epidemic
a. Data, Trends and Impact - Contributors and Risk Factors
a. Prescribing Practices
b. Misrepresentation of Opioid Addiction Risks
c. Paths to Prescription Pain Medicine Addiction
d. Paths to Heroin Use
e. Further Reading
f. Young Adults / Youth Risk Factors
g. Signs of Heroin or Prescription Opioid Misuse - Solutions
a. Education and Prevention
b. Safe Prescribing Guidelines
c. Manage Prescriptions
d. Data and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
e. Screening and Early Intervention
f. Reduce the Stigma Associated with Addiction
g. Harm Reduction
h. Treatment and Recovery - Recognizing and Preventing an Opioid Overdose
a. Who is at Risk of an Overdose
b. Factors that Increase Heroin Overdose
c. What Does an Opioid Overdose Look Like
d. What is Naloxone
e. How Opioids Affect the Central Nervous System
f. How Naloxone Stops and Overdose
g. Naloxone Access and Laws
h. Naloxone Delivery Devices
i. General Naloxone Information - End Notes and Resources
Online CE Course
Online, self-paced continuing education.
3.0 CE Credits
Clinician and layperson accreditation through Purdue University, College of Pharmacy, Office of Continuing Education.
Fees
Individual Course: $45
Prerequisites
None
Onsite and Virtual Training
Onsite and virtual training available for groups of five or more.
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Trainer Program
Get certified to deliver course within your community. Pricing includes a training and a licensing fee.
Prerequisite
The Brain and the Disease of Addiction
Training Fee: $225/person
- Prerequisite course: $30 pp
- Course Training: $150 pp
- Course Kit: $45 pp
Program License Fee: $200/per person
- Access for one trainer to use the materials. Annual renewal.
Group Program License Fee: $400/per group
- Access for two or more trainers within an organization to use the materials. Annual renewal.