Webinar: The Unseen Consequences of Prescription Drug Abuse

Objectives

• Understand the neurobiological basis of addictive disease
• Understand how deadly the stigma of opioid use disorder
• Overview of prescription drug abuse and how it relates as a driver for heroin and fentanyl abuse
• Review of an actual case of over-prescribing opioid pain medications and understand why treatment for opioid addiction matters
• Review of the Center for Disease Control’s chronic pain guidelines
• Understand CSMD data and review of prescribing trends as they relate to increasing heroin and fentanyl use

Presentation

Slides

Facilitated by Stephen Loyd, MD
Assistant Commissioner of Substance Abuse Services
July 5, 2017

Objectives

• Understand the neurobiological basis of addictive disease
• Understand how deadly the stigma of opioid use disorder
• Overview of prescription drug abuse and how it relates as a driver for heroin and fentanyl abuse
• Review of an actual case of over-prescribing opioid pain medications and understand why treatment for opioid addiction matters
• Review of the Center for Disease Control’s chronic pain guidelines
• Understand CSMD data and review of prescribing trends as they relate to increasing heroin and fentanyl use

Presentation

Slides

Facilitated by Stephen Loyd, MD
Assistant Commissioner of Substance Abuse Services
July 5, 2017

Objectives

• Understand the neurobiological basis of addictive disease
• Understand how deadly the stigma of opioid use disorder
• Overview of prescription drug abuse and how it relates as a driver for heroin and fentanyl abuse
• Review of an actual case of over-prescribing opioid pain medications and understand why treatment for opioid addiction matters
• Review of the Center for Disease Control’s chronic pain guidelines
• Understand CSMD data and review of prescribing trends as they relate to increasing heroin and fentanyl use

Presentation

Slides