Intervening with Women and Girls Who Drink at Harmful Levels
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Intervening with Women and Girls Who Drink at Harmful Levels
Recorded: Thursday, April 24, 2025 to Sunday, April 27, 2025
On-Demand Session
Overview
This 90-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 56th Annual Conference addresses the narrowing gender gap in alcohol consumption with discussions on harm reduction in perinatal care, evidence-based adolescent interventions, and strategies tailored to senior women.
The gender gap in alcohol consumption is narrowing, with women experiencing greater increases in alcohol use than men. Women face unique barriers to treatment, including stigma and comorbid conditions. This session explores harm reduction in perinatal care (Carley Castellanos, LMFT), evidence-based adolescent interventions (Dr. Robert Miranda), and strategies tailored to senior women (Dr. Sara Jo Nixon). Participants will learn effective interventions across life stages and gain resources on female-specific and developmentally appropriate treatments for Alcohol Use Disorder.
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: Patient Care and Procedural Skills, Medical Knowledge, Practice-based Learning and Improvement, Systems-based Practice, Interpersonal Communication and Skills, Professionalism.
This session addresses the following IPEC Competencies: Values and Ethics, Roles and Responsibilities, Teams and Teamwork.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, learners will be able to:
- Describe gender-specific trends in alcohol use and treatment access, including the growing prevalence of harmful drinking among women and girls, and the unique barriers they face across the lifespan.
- Identify evidence-based, patient-centered strategies for addressing substance use during key developmental periods--adolescence, the peripartum, and older adulthood--with attention to stigma, comorbidities, and individualized care needs.
- Discuss recent research findings on harm reduction, pharmacotherapy, and digital health interventions tailored to women and girls, and apply this knowledge to support improved outcomes in gender-responsive addiction treatment.
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: 05/26/2025 - 04/26/2028
User Access Closed: 05/26/2028
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Carley Castellanos, LMFT
Regional Director of Early Start, Perinatal Substance Use Intervention Program
Kaiser Permanente, NCAL
Carley Castellanos is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and an MA in Clinical Psychology from Santa Clara University. She brings over 15 years of expertise in Behavioral Health, Addiction Medicine, and Perinatal Substance Use Intervention, with a focus on advancing evidence-based practices and health equity in maternal care.
Carley began her career in Adolescent and Family Addiction Medicine treatment before transitioning into leadership roles at Kaiser Permanente. She then led Kaiser Addiction Medicine programs in the Bay Area and served as the Clinical Director of Psychiatry at the Kaiser South Sacramento Medical Center, where she oversaw comprehensive behavioral health services, including Adult and Child Psychiatry, Addiction Medicine, and Intensive Outpatient Services.
Since 2023, Carley has served as the Regional Director for Kaiser Permanente's Early Start Program, an award-winning perinatal substance use intervention program. Under her leadership, the program has published multiple groundbreaking studies in collaboration with the Division of Research, highlighting the implications of substance use in pregnancy on maternal and neonatal health outcomes. She has also driven initiatives to address provider bias in SUD diagnostics, optimize care pathways for pregnant patients, and improve provider-patient communication about substance use.
Carley is a passionate advocate for viewing substance use disorders from a public health lens, and is committed to promoting patient-centered, harm-reduction approaches that address systemic barriers to care, while empowering providers to deliver compassionate, evidence-based support to pregnant individuals at risk of substance use.
No relevant financial disclosures.
Robert Miranda, PhD, ABPP
Professor
Brown University
Robert Miranda, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical psychologist and professor at Brown University who has committed his career as a clinician scientist to advance our understanding of how substance-related problems develop during adolescence and improve innovative therapeutics to treat youth during the early stages of addiction. He directs a federally funded research program on the treatment of young people with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders, with a special focus on testing new pharmacological interventions. He has served as principal investigator, co-investigator, or mentor on nearly 50 federally funded research projects, and he has developed several novel assessment and intervention approaches for adolescents with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Miranda is the founder and clinical director of the adolescent co-occurring disorders treatment program (Vista) at Bradley Hospital. The program is the premier teenage substance use treatment service and training clinic in the region, and it received recognition as a model treatment program by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
No relevant financial disclosures.
Sara Jo Nixon, PhD
Distinguished Professor
University of Florida
Dr. Nixon is a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Psychology at the University of Florida and Director, UF Center for Addiction Research & Education. Dr. Nixon and her team investigate the neurobiobehavioral and psychosocial concomitants of substance use and misuse in community and clinical populations. Toward this end, her work applies neuropsychological, neurocognitive, and neuroimaging methods as well as clinical research assessments to interrogate the concomitants of substance use and misuse. A significant theme throughout her work is the interrogation of individual variables that may impact substance use and its consequences, including sex, age, race/ethnicity, and comorbid conditions. Her CV lists 160 peer-reviewed papers, numerous book chapters, and two edited books. Dr. Nixon’s research has been funded through multiple sources including private/local foundations and state contracts/allocations. Much of her research support has been provided through the NIH, specifically the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Currently, she serves as PI/MPI for awards from both institutes.
Dr. Nixon is a Fellow in Divisions 28 (Psychopharmacology) and 50 (Addiction) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and served as a member and Chair for APA’s Board of Scientific Affairs as well as President, Division 50. She has filled numerous leadership roles in the Research Society on Alcohol, including that of President. She is a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology where she is currently serving terms on two committees. In addition to having been the 1st woman to have been named Distinguished Professor in the UF College of Medicine, her national honors include the RSA Seixas Award for service and the RSA Henri Begleiter Award for Excellence in Research Award. She has also been awarded the UF Research Foundation (UFRF) Professorship twice, and most recently for the 2024-2027 term.
No relevant financial disclosures.
Anika Alvanzo
MD, MS, DFASAM, FACP
Anika Alvanzo, MD, MS, DFASAM, FACP is the Eastern Region Medical Director for Pyramid Healthcare, Inc. She also serves as a physician consultant on substance use disorders to the Behavioral Health Administration in the Maryland Department of Health and is the Managing Partner of Uzima Consulting Group, LLC, which provides addiction medicine-related consultation, education and training, and expert witness testimony. Dr. Alvanzo is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and holds a master’s degree in biostatistics from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Alvanzo is a Distinguished Fellow of ASAM, a Past President of the Maryland-DC Society of Addiction Medicine (MDDCSAM), and currently serves as Chair of the ASAM Annual Conference Program Planning Committee and Region V Director for the ASAM Board of Directors.
At Pyramid Healthcare, Inc., Dr. Alvanzo’s role is to optimize and standardize the medical care, with emphasis on substance withdrawal management and pharmacotherapy, in the residential and outpatient addiction treatment programs in Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland. Prior to this, Dr. Alvanzo spent twelve years as faculty in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where she held a variety of clinical leadership roles, including Associate Medical Director of Addiction Treatment Services and the Center for Addiction and Pregnancy and Medical Director of the Broadway Center for Addiction, comprehensive, outpatient substance use disorder treatment (SUD) programs on the Johns Hopkin Bayview and Johns Hopkins Hospital campuses, respectively. From 2011 – 2018, Dr. Alvanzo directed the Substance Use Disorders Consultation Service, a multidisciplinary addiction consultation service serving the Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Medicine general and subspecialty services.
Dr. Alvanzo has served as an expert on National Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), National Quality Forum (NQF) and PEW Research Center panels regarding opioids and integration of recovery-oriented care in various medical settings.
No Relevant Financial Disclosures
Deidra Y. Roach
MD
Deidra Roach, MD has 30 years of experience in the field of addiction treatment. She currently serves as a medical project officer for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism where, among other responsibilities, she manages research portfolios addressing the treatment of co-occurring mental health and alcohol use disorders and alcohol-related HIV/AIDS among women. She also serves on the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (ICCFASD) and the NIH Coordinating Committee for Research on Women’s Health. Dr. Roach serves as Co-chair of the Interagency Work Group on Drinking and Drug Use in Women and Girls.
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 1.50 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 1.50 Nursing contact hours.
PAs
ASAM has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1.50 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.50 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 05/06/2028. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Pharmacists
This activity will offer 1.50 pharmacy contact hours (.125 CEUs). Pharmacists will be asked to provide identifying information (e-Profile ID and DOB in MMDD format) in order to receive credit and allow reporting to CPE Monitor. (UAN: JA0000141-0000-25-021-H01)
Note for pharmacists: Not all courses offer CPE Credit. For courses that do offer CPE Credit, pharmacists must claim credit and provide their eProfile ID and Birthdate via the Pharmacist CPE Monitor Information survey within 30 days of completing the activity.
ASAM will not report CPE Credits claimed 30+ days after activity completion to ACPE. ASAM will not report CPE Credits without accurate and complete information.
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 1.50 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.
Other Professions - 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 is designed to meet the requirements for MOC/CCP for several primary physician boards and for state licensing CME requirements. MOC Credit is only reported and designated for ABA, ABIM, ABP and ABS. By completing the online credit claim and evaluation, the learner permits ASAM to report credits to the appropriate Board. Learn more.
American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.50 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety MOC credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
This activity offers up to 1.50 CME credits, of which 1.25 credits contribute the patient safety CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in AnesthesiologyTM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®. Please consult the ABA website, www.theABA.org, for a list of all MOCA 2.0 requirements.
Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology® and MOCA® are registered certification marks of the American Board of Anesthesiology®
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.50 Medical Knowledge MOC points and patient safety MOC credit in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 1.50 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.
American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM)
This activity has been designed to satisfy the Lifelong Professional Development requirements of The American Board of Preventive Medicine’s Continuing Certification (CCP) requirements. These credits are not reported directly to ABPM. Please save your certificate for your records.
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN)
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American Board of Surgery (ABS)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
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