ASAM Practice Pearls: Advanced Buprenorphine - CME

CME

Description: This is a four-episode podcast series focused on improving hospital and clinic-based buprenorphine treatment for OUD. These episodes provide expert insights, practical strategies, and real-world approaches to overcoming common challenges. Listeners will gain a deeper awareness of the specific challenges in buprenorphine prescribing, ultimately improving their clinical practices.

Learning Objectives

Identify barriers to MOUD access at hospital discharge to skilled nursing facilities and apply advocacy and care coordination strategies to ensure continuity of care.

Develop patient-centered follow-up plans for patients with OUD by addressing barriers, building therapeutic alliances, and applying harm reduction principles to improve engagement and retention.

Apply ethical and legal principles to balance patient confidentiality with legal obligations when treating patients with SUD involved in the criminal justice or child welfare systems.

Implement evidence-based, patient-centered strategies for in-hospital substance use by prioritizing harm reduction, compassionate care, and multidisciplinary collaboration to improve patient safety and treatment outcomes.

Specialties: Pain Medicine, Internal Medicine - General, Family Medicine, Critical Care, Primary Care

Disclosures and Disclaimers: Accreditation Statement: The American Society of Addiction Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Credit Designation Statement: The American Society of Addiction Medicine designates this Enduring Material activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accredited Providers

Credit Information

Credit Type	Units / Unit Type	Board
AAPA Category 1 Credit	2 Credits	ACCME- Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education