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Mainly through multiple partnerships with the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, there are widely accessed programs to provide free education of substance use disorders and their treatment. I note most of those with opioid use disorders have other co-morbid substance use disorders that require treatment.
The Provider Clinical Support System - Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (https://pcssnow.org/). This has access to ongoing webinars, archived programs, and even mentorship resources. Specifically there is an introductory SUD 101 course and a Pain Core Curriculum specific for opioids.
The Opioid Response Network (https://opioidresponsenetwork.org/) while focused on the United States, offers many resources as well.
Other resources I would recommend include:
National Insititute of Drug Abuse (https://nida.nih.gov/_
National Institute of Alcohol and Alcoholism (https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/)
HIFA profile: Dr. Sevarino earned his MD, CM at McGill Faculty of Medicine and PhD in molecular biology at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He trained in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He was Medical Director of the Newington Mental Health Care Firm, Connecticut VA Healthcare System from Dec. 2004 through Aug. 2017. He was consulting psychiatrist to Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford from 1999 – 2009, and again 2017-2023. He now works as per diem psychiatrist at Hartford Healthcare – Rushford. His particular expertise is in treatment of the dually-diagnosed and non-opiate pharmacological management of chronic pain. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. He serves as Medical Director for the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP), is a past president of that organization, and co-directs AAAP’s Advanced Addiction Psychopharmacology course. He is a member of the HIFA working group on opioids. https://www.hifa.org/support/members/kevinhttps://www.hifa.org/projects/... AT hotmail.com