In this episode of ASAM Practice Pearls, Drs. Stephen Taylor and Sharon Stancliff explore social determinants of health (SDoH). They discuss the biopsychosocial model of addiction, emphasizing the importance of understanding social factors such as housing, transportation, and economic stability in providing effective care. They highlight the need for clinicians to engage with patients in their environments, advocate for policy changes, and address racial disparities in addiction treatment, offering practical strategies for clinicians to support patients facing social challenges.

This 90-minute course equips healthcare professionals with the essential knowledge, skills, and confidence to educate patients, families, and caregivers about opioid overdose prevention and response, including naloxone use.

This 75-hour on-demand conference includes 64 sessions highlighting best practices and the latest science, research, and innovations in addiction medicine from leading experts in the field.

This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 56th Annual Conference addresses SAMHSA's principles of low barrier care, the importance of local context in clinical models, and strategies to reduce barriers in your own clinical setting.

This one-hour course equips healthcare professionals with practical strategies to navigate the complex challenges of buprenorphine prescribing for opioid use disorder (OUD) in both hospital and clinic settings.

This 16-hour live course includes 9 sessions highlighting best practices and the latest science, research, and innovations in addiction medicine from leading experts in the field.

This 1-hour, 45-minute, on-demand session from the 2024 ASAM State of the Art Course discusses research and treatment approaches for common co-occurring disorders, such as HIV, hepatitis, infectious diseases, and stress and trauma.

This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 55th Annual Conference addresses the challenges seeking substance use treatment among people experiencing homelessness by integrating the perspectives of people with lived experiences of both homelessness and addiction with scientific evidence.

This 88-hour on-demand conference includes 71 sessions highlighting best practices and the latest science, research, and innovations in addiction medicine from leading experts in the field.

This one-hour, on-demand, journal article-based activity that reviews a recent study that examines death certificate data to assess the staggering increase in overdose death rates among Black and Indigenous women in Wisconsin from 2018 to 2020. According to the study, Wisconsin overdose deaths in this population increased 11-fold from 2000 to 2020, with over 1,200 deaths in 2020.