Overview - Earn 2 Hours of SBIRT or Addiction Care CME

This two-hour webinar will cover two key approaches for addressing substance use and pain in healthcare and community settings.
 
Part one will focus on SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment), an evidence-based model to identify and address risky substance use early. Participants will learn SBIRT’s core components and applications in various care environments.
 
Part two explores pain management, distinguishing between pain and suffering in clinical care. Attendees will learn a comprehensive approach integrating physical, emotional, and psychosocial aspects, along with the 2022 CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids.
 
These sessions aim to enhance compassionate, integrated care for individuals facing substance use and chronic pain, providing actionable strategies for diverse practice settings.

Learning Objectives

Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:

• Choose a substance use screening tool suited to their practice setting
• Apply evidence-based techniques for providing a brief intervention
• Develop their practice's process for referring patients
• Outline the recent historical context of prescription opioids in the United States
• Appraise the serious side effects and consequences of opioid misuse and/or long-term use for chronic pain
• Describe important updates to the CDC's newest clinical prescriber guidelines for opioids (2022)
• Define the experience of pain
• Identify the resources for 'Comprehensive Pain Management' (beyond the default practice of prescription opioids)