Overview of Opiate Treatment - 4 Hours
Overview of Opiate Treatment
This course is based in part on Counselor Toolbox Podcast Episodes 133: Pharmacology of Opiates: What are they & How do they impact the mind and body; Episode 006: Psychopharmacology: and Medication Assisted Therapy for Alcohol and Opiate Abuse, Episode 127: Treating Opiate Addiction
Contact Hours: 4
Instructor: Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD
This course is based in part on Counselor Toolbox Podcast Episode 133: Pharmacology of Opiates: What are they & How do they impact the mind and body; Episode 006: Psychopharmacology: and Medication Assisted Therapy for Alcohol and Opiate Abuse, Episode 127: Treating Opiate Addiction
Objectives:
- Review opiates as a depressant and analgesic
- Explore various types of opiates, methods of administration
- Review the short and long term effects of opiates
- Identify symptoms of opiate withdrawal and intoxication
- Discuss factors that make it so easy to overdose on opiates
- Review the use of Naloxone
- Review the different types of benzodiazepines and their half life
- Identify symptoms of benzodiazepine intoxication and withdrawal (including protracted withdrawal)
- Review the short and long term effects of benzodiazapine use
$12.00 for 90 days
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