A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
June 28, 2023
3:00 pm–4:00 pm ET
This one-hour course will review current epidemiological trends related to club or party drug consumption for gender and sexuality diverse people.
Via Zoom
The series, Addressing SUD in Gender and Sexuality Diverse (GSD) Patients, aims to provide addiction treatment providers with evidence-based information about the best practices related to engaging, assessing, and devising treatment plans for patients who identify as gender or sexuality diverse. The 4-part series will explore topics of particular concern to the GSD community including alcohol use, tobacco use, club drug use, and culturally responsive care for gender expansive patients. Didactic learning will be supplemented with a question and answer period for participants to ask experts in the field about particular challenges or considerations in caring for the GSD population.
This one-hour course will review current epidemiological trends related to club or party drug consumption for gender and sexuality diverse people. There will be a brief overview of the types and classes of drugs consumed in club and party settings by GSD populations. Signs of intoxication, dependence, withdrawal, and crash will be reviewed as well as harm reduction strategies for patients using club or party drugs from GSD populations. Screening and treatment models will be reviewed with special considerations for culturally responsive strategies for GSD populations.
Medical providers, nurses, social workers, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors (LADC), Certified Alcohol/Drug Counselors (CADC), Community Health Workers (CHW), recovery coaches, counselors, Licensed Mental health Counselors (LMHC), and members of the community.
Justin is a clinical nurse educator with Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction Training and Technical Assistance, where he contributes to peer-reviewed publications, evidence-based clinical guidelines, development and delivery of continuing education programs, and other resources for providers supporting patients with substance use disorders. Justin is also a nurse practitioner at Boston Medical Center and the nursing director of two housing first programs operated by the Justice Resource Institute, Inc. He has expertise in infectious diseases and their co-occurrence with substance use disorders, community outreach, and harm reduction. Justin's work in HIV/AIDS includes being president of the Boston Chapter of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, consulting for the New England AIDS Education Training Center, and other positions. He currently sits on the stimulant work group for the Opioid Response Network (ORN), the advisory board of the New England Addiction Technology Transfer Center, and the item writing committee for the Addictions Nursing Certification Board (ANCB). Justin received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Northeastern University in 2013, his Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2020, and his Post-Master's Family Nurse Practitioner certificate from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in 2023. He also holds certification as a Certified Addiction Registered Nurse (CARN) through the Addictions Nursing Certification Board (ANCB), certification as an AIDS Certified Registered Nurse (ACRN) through the HIV/AIDS Nursing Certification Board (HANCB), and is a certified nurse educator (CNE) through the National League of Nursing.
Joey Metler, LCSW (he/him)Joey is a Supervising Behavioral Health Clinician at Howard Brown Health in Chicago, IL where he oversees the graduate clinical training program and operates a private practice providing individual therapy and consulting. Previous clinical experience includes overseeing an ACT team and conducing resident reviews for the Colbert Consent Decree with Trilogy Behavioral Healthcare and managing the HIV Testing and Prevention west-side grant for the Test Positive Aware Network. For the last 10 years, Joey has overseen clinical development for pre-licensed staff, facilitated community-based workshops related to OD prevention and harm reduction, created and supervised needle exchanges, and guest lectured at local universities on the topics of sub use treatment, harm reduction, chemsex, and clinical approaches with the LGBTQ/Gender Expansive community. Recently Joey became a Consultant for the Opioid Response Network and has had the privilege of facilitating workshops on harm reduction and stigma within substance use for community based organizations. Joey’s passion comes from his unyielding desire to improve access to quality competent, health care to obtain and maintain health outcomes for marginalized communities. As a therapist, Joey is dedicated to anti-oppressive frameworks and empowering the intersectionality of a client throughout the therapeutic relationship.
Following this training, participants will have the knowledge necessary to:
Boston Medical Center Grayken Center for Addiction TTA, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (DPH/BSAS).
Funding for out of state attendees is provided by the Opioid Response Network (ORN).
Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI083343 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
In support of improving patient care, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Boston Medical Center grants 1.00 hours to all nurses who attend and complete the evaluation. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.00 general continuing education credits.
BMC Grayken Center of Addiction TTA has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7188. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. BMC Grayken Center of Addiction TTA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. For this program, 1.00 contact hours will be offered to participants who attend the training and complete the evaluation.
Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is a program of Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End and the largest safety-net hospital in New England.
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