Presenter: Steven Samra, MPA, Senior Associate, served for nine years as Deputy Director for SAMHSA's Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) and has served in leadership capacities for SAMHSA’s Housing and Homelessness Resource Network, Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, and Services in Supportive Housing Technical Assistance Center and has led numerous peer involvement initiatives. As a core Recovery team member for SAMHSA’s Opioid Response Network (ORN), Steven provides virtual and onsite training and technical assistance across a diverse cross-section of behavioral health and recovery supports and services.

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe Substance Use Disorder
• Identify at least 4 common drugs of misuse
• Restate an overview of poly-substance use
• Discuss signs and symptoms of alcohol intox
• Explain how dopamine hijacks reward system
• Identify the three medications used to treat opioid use disorder and role of Narcan for OUD
• Discuss the differences in success rates between medication assisted treatment and abstinence
• Explain Harm Reduction’s purpose
• Describe Whole Person Care