Vermont Addiction Professionals AssociationVermont Addiction Professionals Association
registration deadline 4/24/24
CHECK – IN 8:00 am – 8:30 am
VAPA Annual Meeting (all welcome) 8:30-9:00 am
AM session 9:00 am -12:15 pm Understanding and Accessing ALL SUD Treatment Levels of Care |
Chadd Viger, MS, LADC
CEO, Recovery House Inc.
President, Vermont Substance Use Treatment Collaborative
Professor, Vermont State University – Castleton
AGENDA:
09:00am – Introductions
09:05am – ASAM Levels of Care
09:35am – Vermont Examples of Levels of Care
09:50am – Deciding Level of Care Appropriateness
10:20am – Principles of Effective Treatment
10:35am – Break
10:50am – Changes with ASAM 4th Edition
11:05am – Treatment Planning with an ASAM lens: 6 Dimensions
11:35am – Accessing Treatment
11:50am – Points to Consider
12:00pm – Q&A
12:15pm Lunch
Learning Objectives:
Review ASAM criteria for all levels of care, including recent updates via the fourth edition.
Review the Vermont System of SUD Care.
Review the NIDA Principles of Effective SUD Treatment.
Review the relationship between the ASAM 6 dimensions and treatment planning.
Review appropriateness of referrals and how to access each level of care.
Lunch 12:15- 1:15 (NOT included on participants own)
PM session 1:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Approach to Clinical Care through ASAM levels of care
Bio:
Heather Stein, MD is a native of West Virginia and grew up in Morgantown where her father is a retired family medicine doctor. Dr. Stein moved to Vermont for her family medicine residency at University of Vermont Medical Center and was introduced to addiction medicine at Community Health Centers where she has worked clinically for twelve years, currently as Associate Medical Director of Substance Use Disorders. She is board certified in both family medicine and addiction medicine and lives locally with her husband and children.
Description:
Approach to Clinical Care through ASAM levels of care: Review of presentation and treatment of intoxication and withdrawal, health risks of substance use, and co-occuring psychiatric conditions.
Learning Objectives:
Review basic physiology and presentation of intoxication and withdrawal of most common substances of abuse.
Review health complications and risks associated with substance use.
Review common presentations and medications used to treat most common substances of abuse in setting of co-occuring mental health diagnoses.
Schedule:
1:15 pm Introductions
1:20 pm Presentation Intoxication and Withdrawal for Commonly Used Substances
2:15pm Health Risks and Complications of Substance use
Break 3:15pm-3:30pm
3:30pm Managing Opioid Use Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder
4:15pm Q&A