HERION USE IN AMERICA: IDENTIFICATION, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION
Tracking # 20-536152
Course overview
The purpose of this course is to familiarize professionals with basic information concerning heroin addiction, which has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and around the globe. This includes facts about heroin and addiction, effects on the brain, progression of the disease, psychological and physical effects of short-term and chronic use, screening, treatment, and prevention. The course covers background information and statistics on the escalation of heroin addiction in the United States from 1850 to 2014 including causative factors. The review includes evidence-based treatment and prevention programs, as well as the current trends in progress to advance prevention and treatment of the disease.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.