General Pharmacology Overview of Substances for Addiction CounsellingProfessionals: Including a Specific Focus on Best Practice for Treating the Opioid Crisis

"A General Pharmacology Overview of Substances is essential to addictions counselling, as having a basic understanding of Pharmacology is critical to treatment options and outcomes therefore, it will further inform your clinical practice."  Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW.

Gain this knowledge in the workshop: A General Pharmacology Overview of Substances for Addiction Counselling Professionals: Including a Specific Focus on Best Practice for Treating the Opioid Crisis coming up on February 11, 2019 with facilitator Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW.

This training is suitable for: Mental health professionals, front-line workers, counselors and psychotherapists who provide services to vulnerable populations.

Description: This training will overview the effects and withdrawal symptoms of amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy, ethyl alcohol and opioids. Introductions of the assessment tools used to assess for the severity of withdrawal symptom will be discussed. 

The second part of this workshop will focus on the current opioid crisis which is the most challenging forms of addiction facing the Canadian health care system, and a major contributor to the marked rises in opioid-related morbidity and death that Canada has been seeing in recent years.  Current best practices and guidelines used to intervene, treat including harm reduction approaches, and prevention will be reviewed. 

This is individual learning module (workshop) 3 from the Fall 2018 Certificate in Addiction Counselling. This module may be taken separately from the certificate program as a stand-alone workshop.

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