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Activity Date: 04/23/2018

AAPP 2018 registration is closed.

Session Time and Location

The live session is complete.

Target Audience

This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other healthcare professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.

Session Summary

Monday, April 23, 2018, 8:30-9:30 AM

Join Dr. Christopher M. Jones, Director of the National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory, as he describes how the misuse of and addiction to opioids is a serious national problem that affects public health, as well as social and economic welfare. Jones will address the opioid crisis in the United States, the rising incidence of neonatal abstinence syndrome (due to opioid use during pregnancy), and the increased spread of infectious diseases, including HIV and hepatitis C. Primary approaches to addressing the crisis include prevention, addressing the underlying addiction issues, and treating overdoses directly by increasing access to naloxone. Longer-term research includes the development of pain medications with reduced abuse/addiction potential. In addition, the ways that pharmacists can play central roles in changing prescribing practices, increasing access to naloxone, and improving access to methadone and buprenorphine with pharmacy dispensing will be reviewed.

Read more about advancing the practice of pain management under the HHS Opioid Strategy.

Course Requirements

To receive ACPE credit for the live session at the Annual Meeting, you must:

  • Sign in (or create a FREE account).
  • Register for this course.
  • Attend and participate in the entire session and reflect upon its teachings.
  • Complete the evaluation at the end of the activity.
  • Provide the necessary details in your profile to ensure correct reporting by AAPP to CPE Monitor.

This course will be provided at the CPNP 2018 Annual Meeting, April 22-25, 2018. Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported immediately to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online at https://aapp.org/mycpnp/transcript/acpe.

Faculty Information and Disclosures

Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, MPH

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Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the current opioid crisis in the United States.
  2. List primary approaches to resolving the crisis.
  3. Discuss long-term research approaches to resolving the crisis.
  4. Identify ways that pharmacists can be central to changing prescribing practices and increasing access to naloxone, methadone and buprenorphine.

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Date: 04/23/2018
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-18-024-L04-P (Knowledge)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for certification renewal.

ACPEThe College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This course provides 1.0 contact hour of knowledge-based continuing education credit from CPNP approved programming.

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