Medications for Opioid Use Disorder- Partnering Addiction Treatment Counselors with Clients and Healthcare Professionals (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course consists of Part 4 of SAMHSA’s TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Partnering Addiction Treatment Counselors with Clients and Healthcare Professionals. The course offers guidance for counselors who work with OUD, OUD medications, and recovery oriented treatment. The course examines the neurobiology of OUD, FDA-approved medications, and the role of counseling. Treatment with methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone is discussed along with benefits, common misconceptions, and concerns. The course includes guidance for pregnant women and guidance for working with mutual help groups.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Course Reading: Tip 63 Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Part 4: Partnering Addiction Treatment Counselors with Clients and Healthcare Professionals
Publisher: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to working with individuals with OUD.
Learning Objectives: Describe changes in brain function from repeated drug use. Describe FDA-approved medications used to treat OUD. Describe misconceptions about medications for OUD. Distinguish OUD from physical dependence on opioid medications. Describe pathways to recovery.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. 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.
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.