(HS 078489 Dadiomov 2023 Advanced Psychopharmacology for Clinicians: Using Psychopharmacology to Understand and Treat Addicti

Course overview

Common medications used to treat substance use disorders like naltrexone, naloxone and methadone can be easy to confuse and hard to understand even for the most seasoned professionals. And thats just the beginning. Drug testing, poly substance abuse, and co occurring mental health problems create more obstacles. Not only does award winning researcher, author and board-certified clinical psychiatric pharmacist, David Dadiomov, PharmD, BCPP bring clarity to the latest research on Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and the role antidepressants, antipsychotics, psychedelics can play. He ll walk you through specific, easy to apply strategies on high-risk prescription opioid use, therapeutic drug monitoring, substance intoxication and withdrawal, treatment-resistant psychiatric conditions and more. Whether you work in direct patient care or allied health settings. You ll be able to apply his interventions to immediately see improved outcomes for your patients. You ll get unique and practical case studies and a simplified, comprehensive guide for medication and non-medication interventions for nearly most SUDs so you can quickly respond to signs of substance-use related emergencies and know how SUDs impact various health conditions. even for your most vulnerable patient populations.