8066 Substance Use Disorders: An Overview Training Course Faculty Version

Course Overview

Consultant: Dr. Joji Suzuki is the founding Director of the Division of Addiction Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). As an addiction psychiatrist on the psychiatric consultation service, his clinical work has consisted largely of conducting inpatient addiction consults in the hospital setting. He has also successfully launched numerous treatment programs, including the comprehensive outpatient addiction clinic at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, and the low-barrier, low-threshold, harm-reduction Bridge Clinic. He is the inaugural Program Director for the BWH Addiction Medicine Fellowship program, and continues to be very active in medical student, resident, and fellow education. He has received research funding continuously for the last decade from both public and private sources with an emphasis on research to improve the care of hospitalized patients with alcohol and opioid use disorders. He recently completed a NIH K23 Career Development Award to receive mentored training in conducting clinical trials. He is now a principal investigator on multiple NIH-funded clinical trials to evaluate novel pharmacologic and psychosocial treatments, with an emphasis on treating patients in the hospital and emergency department. He is a sought-out speaker both locally and nationally, and currently serves on a variety of committees, workgroups, and taskforces for Mass General Brigham, HMS, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, and Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry.

About: This 45 minute virtual training will provide an overview of substance use disorder (SUD) from a treatment, recovery, and harm reduction perspective.

Learning Objectives:

addiction as a chronic disease
the treatment of opioid use disorder
the theory of harm reduction
trauma-informed care
stigma and the importance of using appropriate language when working with clients with SUD
behavior change for clients with SUD

Summary


Availability:	On-Demand
	Expires on Nov 11, 2027


Cost:	FREE


Credit Offered:	No Credit Offered

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