This 40-hour on-demand Board Exam Study Tool (BEST) is an updated, interactive, and engaging tool featuring over 500 board exam-style questions developed, reviewed, and mapped to the addiction medicine exam blueprint content areas by national experts that prepares physicians for the addiction medicine certification exam.

This one-hour, on-demand, journal article-based activity reviews a large cross-sectional study of kratom consumers to evaluate the potential risk for dependency and addiction with kratom consumption and assess the prevalence of kratom use disorder. Up to this time, research about kratom use bas been limited and the prevalence of Kratom Use Disorder (KUD) and indivudual characteristics associated with KUD has not been well understood. The purpose of this study is to improve to gain a clearer clinical understanding of Kratom Use Disorder and better inform the medical community that interacts with patients who consume kratom about the risks of KUD development.

This one-hour, on-demand, journal article-based activity explores original qualitative research on patient perspectives regarding buprenorphine​ discontinuation in the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Little is currently known about the causes of medication discontinuation from the patient perspective. ​Despite buprenorphine and other medications for OUD being the recommended standard care of treatment for OUD and the benefits of positive health and addiction-related outcomes associated with them​, half of patients discontinue medication use in the first year of treatment. Emerging in interviews with patients with OUD treated with buprenorphine were three main themes related to medication discontinuation: health system barriers, adverse effects (or apparent adverse events) associated with the medication, and patient motivations. The purpose of this activity is to better understand patient perspectives around themes of discontinuation and to explore some clinical strategies to enhance patient retention.

This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 55th Annual Conference addresses the racial and socio-economic complexity behind laws governing drug use during pregnancy and be able to contextualize these laws with the use of Urine Drug Screen during pregnancy.

This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 55th Annual Conference addresses healthcare worker stigma against people with substance use disorder as a significant barrier to the provision of high quality, evidence-based treatment in hospitals and Emergency departments.