A Resource for Healthcare and Social Services Professionals
May 25, 2021
1:00 pm–2:30 pm ET
This 1.5 hour session, titled “Opioid Treatment in a Correctional Setting” will be a presentation on the collaboration of care between corrections settings and the OTP.
Via Zoom
OBAT TTA+ and Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. are partnering to provide a series on addiction treatment in the Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) setting. This series will have six sessions covering a variety of topics that are offered twice.
This 1.5 hour session, titled “Opioid Treatment in a Correctional Setting” will be a presentation on the collaboration of care between corrections settings and the OTP.
This training will be held via Zoom. We would prefer that you log in using a computer with a web cam so that we can all connect to each other via video. Please note that signing on with video is required to receive CEs. If you do not have access to a web cam, please let us know.
OTP and OBAT staff providing treatment for substance use disorders in Massachusetts
Participants will describe the use of medications for opioid use disorder within corrections facilities and challenges related to transitioning patients into the community.
Participants will describe recommendations for collaboration of care to improve linkage between corrections facilities and community programing for treatment of substance use disorder.
Participants will identify challenges to transitioning from MOUD in the incarcerated setting to the community.
Bureau of Substance Addiction Services
Boston University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 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 1.50 hours to all nurses who attend and complete the evaluation. Boston Medical Center is approved as a provider of continuing professional development by American Nurses Association, Massachusetts, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Boston University School of Social Work which is authorized through the MA state board of Social Work to provide 1.50 CE Credit Hours.
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.
The content on this site and the content presented by Grayken Center for Addiction TTA is intended solely to inform and educate healthcare and social service professionals, and shall not be used for medical advice and is not a substitute for the advice or treatment of a qualified medical professional. The hospital, the program, and the contributors are not acting as health care providers or professional consultants on behalf of any specific patient and disclaim establishing a provider-patient relationship with any specific patient.