Responding to Addiction 101: Training for Communities

Increase knowledge about addiction and develop skills and strategies to help inform your community about this very urgent health crisis.
About this Event

2 FREE CEUs/RCHs

Online Training via Zoom Platform

Regina Spicer, LSW, LICDC-CS

As the addiction and overdose crisis reaches troubling milestones – 100,000 overdose fatalities last year alone – all leaders and key stakeholders in the community are needed to address the problem. The Responding to Addiction training is designed to increase knowledge about addiction and develop skills and strategies to help your community.

Addiction is one of the most stigmatized health conditions on earth. Research has found that individuals who experience stigma due to a substance use disorder are more likely to continue engaging in substance use, and manifest greater delayed treatment access and higher rates of dropout. Stigma prevents people who are struggling from reaching out for help and isolates families affected by the disease who fear being judged by their communities. Responding to Addiction is designed to: reduce addiction stigma, including stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination; and increase knowledge about addiction, as well as helping behaviors.

Participants will learn: The Science of Addiction, The Signs and Symptoms of Addiction, Evidence-Based Treatment Options, Medications to Treat Addiction, Engagement Strategies.

Please N ote: This training is offered via Addiction Policy Forum. They will provide you with the manual for this training. The attendance for this training will be shared with Addiction Policy Forum and they will email the certificates to the email addresses provided during registration. The ADAMHS Board will award the CEUs/RCHs and put into CE Broker within 30 days following the training. Thank you for attending.