Understanding Addiction
This course is designed for healthcare professionals managing patient's pain while integrating information about the crisis of substance addiction. This course broadens the healthcare professional's understanding of addiction as a health condition and an epidemic. Healthcare professionals in acute care settings who complete this course will increase understanding of how to effectively manage pain.
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Objectives
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
- List the many factors that can be an addiction.
- Explain the consequences of addiction for the person with the addiction.
- Consider the effects of addiction at the family, community, state, and national level.
- Compare addiction behaviors to behaviors associated with medication tolerance.
- Discuss addiction treatment pillars of success.
Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding Drug Addiction
Chapter 2: Diagnostic Criteria
Chapter 3: Neurobiology of Substance Addiction
Chapter 4: Multifactorial Determinants
Chapter 5: The Consequences of Addiction
Chapter 6: Managing Pain in the Era of the Opioid Crisis
Chapter 7: Addiction versus Tolerance
Chapter 8: Addiction Treatment
Chapter 9: References
- California Bill 241
- Implicit Bias in Healthcare
- What is Implicit Bias?
- Implications of Implicit Bias in Healthcare
- How to Reduce Implicit Bias
Price: $10.00
Contact Hour: 1
Course Author
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