Taking Action to Eliminate Inequities in Addiction Medicine
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Taking Action to Minimize Inequities in Addiction Medicine
Created: June 2024
Online Module
Overview
This 1-hour, online module focuses on social determinants and how they work together to create disparities for patients seeking addiction treatment. Learners will examine the socioecological model and the interpersonal, institutional, and structural levels that impact an individual's health and how this model can be utilized to help support patients with substance use disorder.
Additionally, you will explore practical strategies for transforming clinical practices into more equitable environments and the challenges that can arise when attempting to minimize inequities. By grasping the framework for addressing these challenges, healthcare professionals can implement changes at all levels—structural, institutional, and clinical—to better support patients.
Taking Action to Minimize Inequities in Addiction Medicine is the third module in a series of four modules on diversity, equity, and inclusion in addiction medicine. The collection of modules focuses on the causes and enduring consequences of racism and health inequities in the treatment of people with substance use disorders (SUDs).
The target audience for this introductory-level activity includes social workers, counselors, and other clinicians part of the care team
This activity addresses the following ACGME Competencies: Patient Care, Medical Knowledge, and Practice-Based Learning.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, learners will be able to:
- Utilize a socioecological approach to address racial inequities in the addiction medicine field.
- Identify and understand the various levels (interpersonal, institutional, systemic) at which action is required to mitigate racial disparities.
- Explore the interconnectedness of social determinants, with a focus on housing disparities, incarceration, and historical mistrust.
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| Student Member* | $0 |
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Open Registration: 06/04/2024 - 06/1/2027
Close Access Date: 06/28/2027
Instructions
- Click on the Contents tab to begin this activity.
- Click Complete Post Test to answer multiple choice questions. Participants will have 10 attempts to pass and must answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly.
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Avik Chatterjee
MD MPH
Dr. Chatterjee is a med-peds trained primary care and addiction medicine physician at several shelter-based clinics through Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. His areas of clinical and research interest include innovative treatment models for opioid use disorder in marginalized populations, and interventions on social determinants of health, such as food insecurity. He has an additional interest in racism and health care, particularly its manifestations in medical education and training.
No relevant financial disclosure
Amanda Latimore
PhD, AIR
Amanda Latimore, PhD, AIR is a social epidemiologist and the Director of AIR's Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions (AIR CARES). AIR CARES’s multidisciplinary team conducts research, provides technical assistance, engages communities, and translates research into action with the goal of preventing addiction and addressing the needs of those impacted by addiction. Dr. Latimore emphasizes in her approach to this work the role of the structural and social determinants of health in contributing to racial inequities and facilitating or impeding health. Dr. Latimore engages state leaders in exploring how to use funding such as cannabis tax revenue and opioid settlement dollars to repair harms of punitive and unjust drug-related policies and programs. She currently leads a mixed-method evaluation funded by the Greater Washington Community Foundation to assess the impact of a $95M investment in the structural and social determinants of health to advance health equity. She has previously served as a policy consultant to the American Society of Addiction Medicine on advocacy priorities for racial justice. Dr. Latimore is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University where she continues to teach social epidemiology and emphasize the importance of translating research for practice.
No relevant financial disclosure
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
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 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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.
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The planners, faculty, or those in control of creating or disseminating this accredited continuing education have no relevant financial relationships.
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