Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder: Waiver Qualifying - 8 Hours Online

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Welcome to The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course. This course provides the 8 hours of education needed to receive a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in an office-based setting. More information on waiver requirements can be found on the SAMHSA website.

To begin the online portion of the course, please log in to your right and locate the box that says Module 1. If you do not know your password, or you have forgotten it, select "Forgot Password" and you will be emailed a link to reset your password.

This 8-hour online course combines modules from our blended course and Video On-Demand captured on October 5, 2016 in Washington, DC.

All online modules and quizzes must be completed before moving on to Video On-Demand. Detailed instructions for completing the online portion of the course can be found under the tab titled "Course Instructions."

After completing the online modules, Videos On-Demand, corresponding quizzes, and applicable evaluations, return here to claim CME for the course. If you have any questions, please contact education@ASAM.org.


Overview of Legislation

Physicians

The Drug Abuse Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000) specifies training is necessary for physicians to obtain a waiver to engage in office‐based treatment of opioid use disorders using drugs approved by the FDA on Schedules III, IV, and V. This course addresses those requirements using a curriculum approved by CSAT/SAMHSA and ASAM, who is one of the national organizations named in the DATA 2000 legislation as eligible to prepare and administer these courses.

Daniel P. Alford

MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM

Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM is a Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). He is on staff in the Section of General Internal Medicine and Director of the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at Boston Medical Center. He is the Medical Director of the CDC-funded Boston Sustainable Models for unhealthy Alcohol use ReducTion (B SMART) and the HRSA funded SBIRT And FASD Education, Support and Treatment (SAFEST) Choice programs. 

No relevant financial disclosures

Edwin Salsitz

MD, DFASAM

Dr. Edwin A. Salsitz has been an attending physician in the Mount Sinai Beth Israel , Division of Chemical Dependency, New York City, since 1983, and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is the principal investigator of the Methadone Medical Maintenance (office-based methadone maintenance) research project. Dr. Salsitz is certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine, as well as by the Board of Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Disease. He has published and lectures frequently on addiction medicine topics.

Dr. Salsitz is a course director for ASAM sponsored Buprenorphine and REMS Opioid trainings, and is a lead mentor in the PCSS-MAT mentoring program. He has co-chaired the ASAM Review Course, the ASAM Common Threads Course, the ASAM State of the Art course and is a reviewer for the Journal of Addiction Medicine and Drug and Alcohol Dependence. He is the chair of the ASAM REMS course on safe and effective prescribing of opioids. Dr. Salsitz was the Co-chair of the ASAM CME committee and Chair of the New York Society of Addiction Medicine CME and Education committee.

Dr. Salsitz is a member of the medical advisory panel, for the New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services.
Dr. Salsitz is the recipient of the 2014 ASAM Annual Award, and the 2018 ASAM Annual Educator of the Year Award.

No Relevant Financial Disclosures

Sarah Bagley

MD

Sarah Bagley, MD, is an attending in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. Sarah completed a Combined Residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Brown and then an Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Boston University. Her clinical and research interest are related to the impact of substance use on families and in the treatment of adolescents with substance use disorders.

Jeffrey Baxter

MD

Jeff Baxter, MD, is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Baxter completed a fellowship in Addiction Medicine at the Boston VA Medical Center, and is board certified in Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Spectrum Health Systems Addiction Treatment Services, overseeing inpatient, outpatient and residential divisions.

Colleen LaBelle

BSN, RN-BC, CARN

Colleen LaBelle has certifications in addiction nursing and HIV with over 20 years of clinical experience in HIV and addiction, and co-authored a publication in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, “Treating Homeless Opioid Dependent Patients with Buprenorphine in an Office-based Setting." She was instrumental in the start up of the OBOT Program in the BMC Primary Care Clinic, which manages over 450 active patients with buprenorphine. This program provides buprenorphine treatment for patients in primary care, homeless, HIV, Family Medicine, OB, and support to the affiliated community health centers. She is the program director of the STATE OBOT B (State Technical Assistance, Treatment Expansion of Buprenorphine) working with 14 community health centers implementing a nurse care manager model for the expansion of buprenorphine. Since 2003, Ms. LaBelle has served as Faculty for the buprenorphine certification course of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She frequently gives presentations on buprenorphine and provides consultation and technical assistance on- and offsite and by telephone. She oversees the MDPH buprenorphine list-serve and provides liaison for MDPH supported buprenorphine training, education and start-up in Massachusetts. She speaks on a local and national level, and has been a part of the SAMHSA Summit on Buprenorphine. Ms. LaBelle has served as a member of the Scientific Study (Study Section) Review Committee for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Since 2004, she has served on the National Advisory Committee on Buprenorphine for the Health Resources and Services Administration and participated in professional editing of TAP 30 Technical Assistance Publication for Nurses with SAMHSA, 2009. Co-author : Five Year Experience with Collaborative Care of Opioid Addicted Patients using Buprenorphine in Primary Care, published Archives of Internal Medicine. In May 2011 she was the recipient of Individual Leadership Award, for Innovation In Health Care from MA Bureau of Substance Abuse Services as well as a NIATX award recipient 2011 Innovations in Behavioral Health Services award for Process Improvements. She is a board member of the Addiction Nurses Certification Board, and recently started a MA Chapter for addiction nurses.

Dr. Sharon Levy, MD, MPH

Director, Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program, Boston Children's Hospital

Sharon Levy, MD, MPH is a board certified Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.  She is the Director of the Adolescent Substance use and Addiction Program (ASAP) in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. She has evaluated and treated thousands of adolescents with substance use disorders, and has taught national curricula and published extensively on the outpatient management of substance use disorders in adolescents, including screening and brief advice in primary care, the use of drug testing and the outpatient management of opioid dependent adolescents. 

Paula Lum

MD, MPH, FASAM

Dr. Lum is a general internist and primary care physician, and Professor of Medicine in the HIV/AIDS Division in the University of California, San Francisco's Department of Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She is certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.

Kelley Saia

MD

Kelley Saia, MD, is an attending obstetrician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine.Dr. Saia received her medical degree from the University of Vermont, College of Medicine and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Boston Medical Center.

In addition to caring for women with general obstetrics and gynecologic issues, she is the director of Project RESPECT, Substance Use Disorder Treatment in pregnancy at Boston Medical Center. Project RESPECT has been caring for pregnant women with substance use disorder for over 30 years and Dr. Saia, established the first obstetric buprenorphine clinic in the greater Boston area in 2006. RESPECT cares for over 125 mother-baby pairs per year with a multidisciplinary team consisting of obstetricians, addiction medicine specialist, pediatrics, psychiatry, social work, lactation consultants and nursing. Dr. Saia is actively engaged in patient care QI, clinical and scientific research, community outreach and medical training.

Andrew Saxon

MD, FASAM

University of Washington School of Medicine, VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Preceding his entry into psychiatry, Dr. Saxon completed an internal medicine internship and worked for 4 years as an emergency room physician. Subsequent to his general psychiatry residency at the University of Washington, Dr. Saxon has more than three decades of experience as a clinical and research addiction psychiatrist. Dr. Saxon is board certified with added qualifications in addiction psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Saxon sits on the editorial boards of the journals, Drug and Alcohol Dependence and General Hospital Psychiatry and is section editor for substance use disorders for UpToDate. He is a lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, where he served from 2017-2019 as that organization’s Chair of the Council on Addiction Psychiatry, and a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, as well as a member of College on Problems of Drug Dependence and of American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.

Dr. Saxon’s current research work is supported by the VA, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and National Institute of Mental Health and involves pharmacotherapies and psychotherapies for alcohol, tobacco, and opioid use disorders, work in co-occurrence of substance use disorders and posttraumatic stress disorder, phenomenology and epidemiology of cannabis use, and treatment of substance use in primary care. He has more than 180 papers published in peer reviewed journals and has done numerous conference presentations.

R. Corey Waller (Moderator)

MD, MS, DFASAM

R. Corey Waller, MD, MS, FACEP, DFASAM, is an addiction, pain and emergency medicine specialist. Dr. Waller earned his bachelor's degree in biology and his master's degree in neuromolecular biology at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He earned his medical degree at University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. Dr. Waller completed his emergency medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is board certified and fellowship trained in addiction medicine.

No relevant financial relationships

Alexander Y. Walley

Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

Alexander Y. Walley, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and a general internist and addiction medicine specialist at Boston Medical Center. He has been the director of the Grayken Addiction Medicine Fellowship program since 2011. His research focuses on the medical complications of substance use, specifically HIV and overdose. He provides primary care and office-based addiction treatment for patients with HIV at Boston Medical Center. He founded BMC’s inpatient Addiction Consult Service in 2015 and the Faster Paths low-barrier access clinic in 2016. He is the medical director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Opioid Overdose Prevention Program. Since 2007, the MDPH program has trained over 90,000 people in Massachusetts’s communities, including people at-risk for overdose and their social networks.

No relevant financial relationships

Apply

SAMHSA reviews waiver applications within 45 business days of receipt. If approved, you will receive a letter via email that confirms your waiver and includes your prescribing identification number.

Waiver applications are forwarded to the DEA. DEA regulations require your prescribing identification number to be included on all buprenorphine prescriptions for opioid dependency treatment, along with your regular DEA number.

If you have not received confirmation of receipt of your application, or if it has been more than 45 business days since submitting it, contact CSAT by email: infobuprenorphine@samhsa.hhs.gov or call 866.287.2728.

The ASAM National Practice Guidelines for the Use of Medications in the Treatment of Addiction Involving Opioid Use: Click here to view ASAM's newly released National Practice Guideline.

Prescribers Clinical Support System for Medication Assisted Treatment - A national training and mentoring project developed in response to the prescription opioid misuse epidemic and the availability of newer pharmacotherapies to address opioid dependence.

  1. Mentoring for those providing care for opioid dependent individuals available at no cost to all interested providers. Click here.
  2. Clinical Tools (clinical guidances, sample forms including: patient information, intake forms, treatment agreements, induction forms, TIPs and more). Click here.

SAMHSA Buprenorphine website: Click here to access SAMHSA's website for more information on buprenorphine prescribing. For questions on licensure, DEA-X number etc., please call 866-287-2728 or email info@buprenorphine.samhsa.gov.

DATA Physician Locator: Click here for SAMHSA's physician locator.

Waiver Notification Form: Click here for more information from SAMHSA on how to obtain a waiver and download a waiver notification form.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Click here for more information from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Click here to visit NIDA's website.

NIDA Buprenorphine Suite of Blending Products: Click here to access NIDA's buprenorphine training for multidisciplinary addiction professionals.

Drug Enforcement Administration: Click here to visit the DEA's website.

A Guide for Law Enforcement on Buprenorphine: Click here to read an article from Huffington Post on Methadone and Buprenorphine.

Handbook of Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment of Opioid Dependence: Click here for a book by John A. Renner, Jr. and Petros Levounis on treating those with opioid dependence.

How To Fill Out Your NOI Form: Click here for a step-by-step video guide on how to fill out your NOI form. Provided by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.

  1. Locate the box on the right that says “Module 1" and click “View Web Content On-Demand"
  2. Locate the box on the right that says “Certificate code" and enter the code given upon completion of Module 1 Part 1
  3. Continue to Module 1 Part 2 and Module 1 Part 3
  4. Once you have completed the entire module, locate the box called “Module 1 Quiz" and choose “Take Quiz"
  5. After you have completed Module 1 Quiz, continue to modules 2 and 3
  6. View the videos On-Demand and complete the associated quizzes
  7. You will be required to pass all 7 quizzes with a grade of 70% or higher
  8. When you complete all modules, quizzes, and evaluation you will be able to claim CME Credit through the ASAM e-Learning Center

CME Information and Disclosure Listing

Date of Release: January 15, 2017
Approved Through: December 31, 2019

ACCME Accreditation Statement

The American Society of Addiction Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Society of Addiction Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The online enduring material will provide the required 8 hours needed to obtain the waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in office-based treatment of opioid use disorders.

This course has been designated as an approved CME Activity by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM). Physicians enrolled in the ABAM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program can apply a maximum of 8AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ to the CME requirement for Part II: Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment.

In accordance with the disclosure policies of ASAM and the ACCME, the effort is made to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all educational activities. These policies include resolving all conflicts of interest between the CME Committee, Planning Committee and faculty, and commercial interests that might otherwise compromise the goal and educational integrity of this activity. All CME Committee, Planning Committee and faculty participating in the activity have disclosed all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests. The CME Committee has reviewed these disclosures and determined that the planning committee and faculty relationships are not inappropriate in the content of their respective presentations and are not inconsistent with the educational goals and integrity of the activity.

ASAM CME Committee

Name

Nature of Relevant Financial Relationship

Commercial Interest

What was received?

For what role?

Adam J. Gordon, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM, Chair

None

Edwin A. Salsitz, MD, FASAM

None

Herbert Malinoff, MD, FACP, FASAM

None



Noel Ilogu, MD, MRCP

None

Abigail Kay, MD

None

John Tanner, DO, FASAM

Reckitt Benckiser

OREXO

BDSI

Honorarium

Honorarium

Honorarium

Speaker

Speaker

Speaker and Consultant

Catherine Friedman, MD

None

ASAM Buprenorphine Program Planning Committee

Name

Nature of Relevant Financial Relationship

Commercial Interest

What was received?

For what role?

Dan Alford, MD, MPH

None

Edwin Salsitz, MD, FASAM

None

Paula J. Lum, MD, MPH

None


ASAM Buprenorphine Course Faculty

Name

Nature of Relevant Financial Relationship

Commercial Interest

What was received?

For what role?

Edwin Salsitz, MD, FASAM

None

R. Corey Waller,

MD, MS, FACEP, DFASAM

None

Andrew J. Saxon, MD

UpToDate

Royalties

Senior Editor, Drug Use Disorders

Colleen LaBelle, BSN, RN-BC, CARN

None

Dan A. Alford, MD, MPH

None

Jeffrey D. Baxter, MD

None

Kelley Saia, MD

None

Sharon Levy, MD, MPH

None

Paula J. Lum, MD, MPH

None

Sarah Bagley, MD

ASAM Millennium Fellowship Award

Partial Salary Support

Awardee

Alexander Y. Walley, MD, MSc

None

ASAM CME Committee Reviewers

Name

Nature of Relevant Financial Relationship

Commercial Interest

What was received?

For what role?

Adam J. Gordon, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM

None

At the conclusion of this activity, learners should be able to:

  1. Apply for a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine to their patients with opioid use disorders
  2. Identify and assess patients who are appropriate for treatment with medications
  3. Have specific knowledge concerning the use of medications to manage patients with addiction involving opioid use
  4. Discuss the psychiatric and medical co-morbidities associated with opioid addiction
  1. Providers who wish to obtain a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine in office based treatment of opioid use disorders.
  2. Clinicians and health care team members working with prescribers who prescribe buprenorphine in office based treatment of opioid use disorders.

The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course has been made available in part by an unrestricted educational grant from Indivior Inc.

When all 8 hours of the course have been completed, CME can be claimed in the e-Learning Center.

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Pre-Course Survey
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Module 1 Part 1
Recorded 06/23/2015
Recorded 06/23/2015 This module will cover the neurobiology of opioid use disorders, epidemiology of heroin use and prescription opioid misuse, the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000, opioid pharmacology and treatment with medications.
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Module 1 Part 2
Recorded 06/23/2015
Recorded 06/23/2015 This module will cover the neurobiology of opioid use disorders, epidemiology of heroin use and prescription opioid misuse, the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000, opioid pharmacology and treatment with medications.
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Module 1 Part 3
Recorded 06/23/2015
Recorded 06/23/2015 This module will cover the neurobiology of opioid use disorders, epidemiology of heroin use and prescription opioid misuse, the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000, opioid pharmacology and treatment with medications.
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Enter code to continue. Please enter the certificate code given at the end of Module 1, Part 3.
Module 1 Quiz
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7 Questions  |  10 attempts  |  5/7 points to pass Module 1 Quiz
Module 2 Part 1
Recorded 06/23/2015
Recorded 06/23/2015 This module will cover an overview of implementing Office-Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) including: patient assessment, office management, medication management, role of nonpharmacotherapy and patient monitoring.
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Module 2 Part 2
Recorded 06/23/2015
Recorded 06/23/2015 This module will cover an overview of implementing Office-Based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) including: patient assessment, office management, medication management, role of nonpharmacotherapy and patient monitoring.
Certificate code
Enter code to continue.
Enter code to continue. Please enter the certificate code given at the end of Module 2, Part 2.
Module 2 Quiz
8 Questions  |  10 attempts  |  6/8 points to pass
8 Questions  |  10 attempts  |  6/8 points to pass Module 2
Module 3 Part 1
Recorded 06/23/2015
Recorded 06/23/2015 This module will cover adolescents and young adults, pregnancy, neonatal abstinence and breastfeeding, medical co-morbidities, psychiatric co-morbidities and managing acute and chronic pain (requiring opioid analgesics) in patients on Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT).
Certificate code
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Enter code to continue. Please enter the certificate code given at the end of Module 3, Part 1.
Module 3 Part 2
Recorded 06/23/2015
Recorded 06/23/2015 This module will cover adolescents and young adults, pregnancy, neonatal abstinence and breastfeeding, medical co-morbidities, psychiatric co-morbidities and managing acute and chronic pain (requiring opioid analgesics) in patients on Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT).
Certificate code
Enter code to continue.
Enter code to continue. Please enter the certificate code given at the end of Module 3, Part 2.
Module 3 Part 3
Recorded 06/23/2015
Recorded 06/23/2015 This module will cover adolescents and young adults, pregnancy, neonatal abstinence and breastfeeding, medical co-morbidities, psychiatric co-morbidities and managing acute and chronic pain (requiring opioid analgesics) in patients on Opioid Agonist Treatment (OAT).
Certificate code
Enter code to continue.
Enter code to continue. Please enter the certificate code given at the end of Module 3, Part 3.
Module 3 Quiz
11 Questions  |  10 attempts  |  8/11 points to pass
11 Questions  |  10 attempts  |  8/11 points to pass Module 3
Video On-Demand: Part 1
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Video On-Demand: Part 1 Quiz
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1 Question  |  4 attempts  |  1/1 points to pass
Video On-Demand: Part 2
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Video On-Demand: Part 2 Quiz
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1 Question  |  5 attempts  |  1/1 points to pass
Video On-Demand: Part 3
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Open to view video. The ASAM Buprenorphine Waiver Course recorded October 5, 2016
Video On-Demand: Part 3 Quiz
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1 Question  |  4 attempts  |  1/1 points to pass
Video On-Demand: Part 4
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Open to view video. The ASAM Buprenorphine Waiver Course recorded on October 5, 2016
Video On-Demand: Part 4 Quiz
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1 Question  |  4 attempts  |  1/1 points to pass
The ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course Online Evaluation
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15 Questions CME Evaluation for the ASAM Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Course (Online)
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