Clinicians Advocating for Methadone Reform: Community Engagement and Empowerment
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Clinicians Advocating for Methadone Reform: Community Engagement and Empowerment
Recorded: Thursday, April 4, 2024 to Sunday, April 7, 2024
On-Demand Session
Overview
This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 55th Annual Conference addresses how clinicians can leverage new relationships to generate actionable policy and practice recommendations.
People who use drugs are marginalized and their experiences and preferences are often overlooked. The focus session will show how a group of clinicians across the U.S. worked towards improving methadone treatment by partnering with directly-impacted individuals, researchers, and policy groups. Our coalition used collective action, through national convenings and working groups, to advocate for policy and practice reforms.
The target audience for this Introductory level session includes physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, other clinicians, researchers, residents, fellows, students, and counselors.
This session addresses the following ACGME Competencies: Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Systems-based Practice
This session addresses the following ICPE Competencies:Values and Ethics, Teams and Teamwork
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, learners will be able to:
- Upon completion, participants will be able to explain how clinicians can partner with directly impacted people to build trust.
- Upon completion, participants will be able to explain how clinicians can call for Systemic Improvements through a National Conference.
- Upon completion, participants will be able to explain how clinicians can leverage new relationships to generate actionable policy and practice recommendations.
Registration Rates
| Rate Description | Rate |
| ASAM Member | $29 |
| Non-Member | $39 |
| Associate Member | $19 |
| Resident Member* | $19 |
| Student Member* | $19 |
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Registration Open: 05/06/2024 - 04/06/2027
User Access Closed: 05/06/2027
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Rachel Simon, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Rachel E. Simon, MD, is a primary care and addiction medicine physician at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, and a clinical assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Part of her clinical responsibilities includes providing care to patients at Bellevue's opioid treatment program. She completed her internal medicine and addiction medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Zoe Weinstein
MD, MS
Zoe M. Weinstein MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, a graduate of Boston University’s Addiction Medicine Fellowship and board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Her current clinical work and research are focused on long-term Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) with buprenorphine, and the development and evaluation of inpatient addiction consult services. She has been the director of Boston Medical Center’s Addiction Consult Service since July 2016.
Aaron Ferguson
BSW
Aaron Ferguson, (BSW) is a Regional Impact Manager with Community Medical Services (CMS). CMS is a national provider of medications for people with opioid use disorder. Aaron works to advocate for and implement methadone and buprenorphine treatments in jails, prisons, inpatient settings, and communities in general. Aaron is also on the leadership team of the Urban Survivor’s Union, a national group of advocates for drug user health. Most of what Aaron knows about harm reduction he learned during 15 years of living on the streets of San Francisco and Santa Cruz California as a kid. Traveling to over 30 countries and living in several European countries as a citizen has also taught Aaron that the US has an unnecessarily barbaric way of dealing with people who use drugs. Having received a degree in social work—and upon spending several years examining the scientific literature—Aaron believes that the best way to combat the misinformation and stigma against people who use substances is for those most directly impacted to organize and fight for their own rights. Aaron works tirelessly to help communities accept the overwhelming evidence for harm reduction and MAT, and wants to help bring about a revolution in the US to begin seeing people who use drugs as humans, rather than immoral or diseased subjects.
As a hobby, Aaron produces a long-standing harm reduction podcast called “The Social Exchange with Zach Rhodes”, spotlighting important topics related to harm reduction, and has another podcast called “Narcotica” spotlighting past and current events in the war on drugs. Aaron is a happily married father of 2 who encourages skepticism, reason and science as the paths to enlightenment and discovery. When Aaron is not working, he enjoys running marathons, producing music, scuba diving and most of all spending quality time with his wife and two kids.
Nick Voyles, Harm Reduction
Executive Director
National Survivors Union
Nicholas Voyles is the Executive Director at the Indiana Recovery Alliance in Bloomington, Indiana, the Viral Hepatitis Liaison for the Urban Survivors Union (the national voice for people who use drugs) , and sits on both the Board of Directors for the North Carolina Survivors Union and the Advisory Board for the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable. Nicholas is also a graduate of the Duke University School of Nonprofit Management and contributed to the creation of the Zero is Possible HIV/HCV elimination plan for the state of Indiana. He was propelled into advocacy when his Community cured his Hepatitis C after several medicate denials due to restrictions that existed at the time. Now cured, he takes the fight to eliminate HIV/HCV personally, as he has lived through the pains the disease can cause. He is trained in overdose prevention, syringe service program management, naloxone distribution, awareness and advocacy and substance use, issues in substance use treatment, reentry after incarceration, housing-loss survival, and harm reduction principles and philosophies, Drawing on his living and lived experience with incarceration, drug use, and living with Viral Hepatitis, he serves his community by providing positive change to people anywhere he is able. His fights to end both eliminate Viral Hepatitis in his lifetime, end the War On Drugs (/People) and help reallocate resources to people who use drugs.
Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Kimberly Sue is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Program in Addiction Medicine (Division of General Internal Medicine) at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the former Medical Director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition, New York, NY, which strives to improve the health and wellbeing of people who use drugs. Currently, she serves as an Attending Physician at the Central Medical Unit, APT Foundation, which provides primary care to patients receiving methadone and other substance use treatment services and supervises fellows and trainees within the Yale Addiction Medicine Fellowship program. She also is an Attending Physician on the hospital-based Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service. She also holds board certification in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sue trained at Harvard's MD-PhD Social Science Program, and has a PhD in sociocultural anthropology. Her book, Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis (2019), is based on her research on women with opioid use disorder in Massachusetts prison and jails. Her current research interests include harm reduction, stigma, gender/women and substance use, and overdose response strategies on local, state, and federal levels.
Accreditation & Credit Designation Statements
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, the American Society of Addiction Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physicians
The American Society of Addiction Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses
This activity awards 1.25 Nursing contact hours.
PAs
ASAM has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.25 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 05/06/2027. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Social Workers
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, ASAM is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credits.
IPCE Credit
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.25 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
California Association for Drug/Alcohol Educators (CAADE)
This educational program is approved by CAADE: #CP40 999 1225.
California Association of DUI Treatment Centers (CADTP)
This educational program is approved by CADTP: #205.
California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP)
This educational program is approved by CCAPP: #OS-20-330-1224.
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
Upon completion of the activity and online evaluation, all other participants may request a certificate of participation. Participants may submit this certificate of participation to their professional organization/institute as documentation for completing this accredited continuing activity.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) or Continuing Certification Programs (CCP)
This activity meets the requirements for MOC/CCP for the following primary physician boards and for state licensing CME requirements. MOC Credit is only reported for ABA, ABP, ABIM, and ABS. By completing the online credit application and evaluation, the learner permits ASAM to report credits to the appropriate Board. Learn more.
- American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)
- American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM)
- American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
- American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
- American Board of Surgery (ABS)
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN)
- American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM)
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
- Through an agreement between the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Canada, medical practitioners participating in the Royal College MOC Program may record completion of accredited activities registered under the ACCME’s “CME in Support of MOC” program in Section 3 of the Royal College’s MOC Program.
Disclosure Information
In accordance with disclosure policies of ASAM and Joint Accreditation, the effort is made to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all CME/CE activities. These policies include mitigating all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for the Planning Committees and Presenters. All activity Planning Committee members and Presenters have disclosed all financial relationship information. The ASAM CE Committee has reviewed these disclosures and determined that the relationships are not inappropriate in the context of their respective presentations and are not inconsistent with the educational goals and integrity of the activity. Click here to view the full disclosure listing.
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