Dear Colleagues,
This week Neil raised the question about What interventions are available in your country when addressing opioid use disorders?
That raises the question of whether healthcare professionals receive the necessary training to address this issue.
Given that many professionals, especially in low- and middle-income countries, may lack easy access to training in the management of Substance Use Disorders, particularly Opioid Use Disorders, I want to share some free educational resources from the Addiction Training Program for Health Professionals (ATHP) of the Frank Foundation/NextGenU with the HIFA audience:
- Substance Use and Public Health
https://courses.nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=411
- Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care
https://courses.nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=390
- Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment
https://courses.nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=406
- Substance Use Disorders Among Forced Migrant Populations in
Humanitarian Settings https://courses.nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=449
- Buprenorphine Training: Treating Opioid Use Disorder
https://courses.nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=450
- Naloxone Training: Treating an Opioid Overdose.
https://courses.nextgenu.org/course/view.php?id=414
I am sure that Dr. Kevin Sevarino, from the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP), can share even more resources.
I hope they can be useful to some of you.
Kind regards,
Eduardo
Eduardo Bianco, MD, MSc, BIR
ATHP Director
Addiction Training for Health Professionals <https://athp.nextgenu.org/>
Email: ebianco@nextgenu.org
HIFA profile: Eduardo Bianco is a medical doctor and Cardiologist, Certified Tobacco Cessation Expert with a Master's in Prevention and Treatment of Addictive Disorders. Bianco also has a degree in International Relations. Currently, he is Director of International Policy Education in Addictions of the Frank Foundation for International Health and Member of the Interim Policy Committee of the Global Alliance for Tobacco Control (GATC). He had a prominent role in promoting smoking cessation, tobacco control, WHO-FCTC implementation and NCD control in his country (Uruguay) as well as in Latin America for over 25 years. Bianco participated directly in most of the development process of the WHO-Framework Convention on Tobacco control and in the Sessions of the Conference of the Parties to this treaty. He was Director or Tobacco Control Program of InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Regional Coordinator for the Americas of the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), Chair of the Tobacco Expert Group of the World Heart Federation and Technical Director of the MOH Center for International Cooperation for Tobacco as well as Founder and Former President of the Tobacco Epidemic Research Center (CIET) in Uruguay. Eduardo helps coordinate the HIFA working group on substance use disorders. https://www.hifa.org/support/members/eduardo