About: This hour training is spent discussing how nurses can interact with opioid use disorder patients, how different FDA 

Learning objectives:

• Share Primary Care Perspective for caring for people with an Opioid Use Disorder
• Introduce core concepts of tolerance, withdrawal, opioids and brain receptor biology
• Review FDA-approved medication for OUD
• How do Nurses and Care Team members help?
• Answer questions

Presenter:

Dr. Matt Perez: Matt Perez is a family doctor in Seattle WA at a large urban federally qualified community health center. He started their MOUD/buprenorphine program in 2014, helped spread it across the organization, has taught dozens of waiver courses across WA state and has given national talks on primary care addiction medicine. Treating substance use disorders is one of the most rewarding parts of his practice.