Facing Addiction in America: Spotlight on Opioids (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course takes a comprehensive and practical look at opioid misuse, treatment, overdose, and recovery. The course includes a discussion of the prevalence of opioid misuse and the neurobiology of addiction. Treatment approaches include a combination of medication-assisted treatment and psychosocial therapies. FDA-approved OUD medications are discussed. The reading includes Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Spotlight on Opioids.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Course reading: Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Spotlight on Opioids
Publisher: US Department of Health and Human Services; The Office of the Surgeon General
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to OUD intervention and treatment.
Learning Objectives: Define prescription opioid misuse and opioid use disorder. Describe the 3 stages of the addiction cycle and the brain regions associated with them. Describe the “gold standard” for treating opioid addiction. Compare the FDA-approved medications for OUD treatment.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 clinical continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Facing Addiction in America: Spotlight on Opioids, Course #3412, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Free State Social Work as an individual course. Individual courses, not providers, are approved at the course level. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 12/21/2020 - 12/21/2022. Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical Practice continuing education credits.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.