This program aims to support healthcare and mental health providers, staff, and administrators with stimulant use disorder patient care. Sessions will be facilitated with a team from Northern Nevada HOPES and will provide a forum to discuss patient cases, address questions/concerns and collaborate regarding stimulant use disorder therapy. Series Schedule/Topics: Session #1: Orientation to Stimulant Use Disorder […]
This program aims to support healthcare and mental health providers, staff, and administrators with stimulant use disorder patient care. Sessions will be facilitated with a team from Northern Nevada HOPES and will provide a forum to discuss patient cases, address questions/concerns and collaborate regarding stimulant use disorder therapy. Series Schedule/Topics: Session #1: Orientation to Stimulant Use Disorder […]
This clinic is a forum guided by a Pain Management Physician, a Pain Management Psychologist, and a Mental Health and Addiction Specialist. The clinic offers an opportunity to present and discuss patients in your clinic with pain. Learn how to assess and manage your patients with pain through a variety of non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic modalities. […]
This Listening Session informs how to identify substance use disorder (SUD), changing the conversation about opioid use disorder, and offers insights into prevention strategies and diversion programs that play a crucial role in addressing substance use disorders.Learning Objectives: Participants will develop the skills necessary to identify early signs of substance use disorder (SUD) through the […]
This clinic is a forum guided by a Pain Management Physician, a Pain Management Psychologist, and a Mental Health and Addiction Specialist. The clinic offers an opportunity to present and discuss patients in your clinic with pain. Learn how to assess and manage your patients with pain through a variety of non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic modalities. […]
The Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act of 2015 (Senate Bill 459, Chapter 26, Statutes of Nevada 2015 NRS 453C.120) created various provisions addressing the opiate overdose epidemic that continues to claim over 300 lives per year in Nevada. The law prevents punitive actions against health professionals and any person who administers naloxone or calls 911 […]
First and Third Wednesdays of each month | 8–9 am This clinic is a forum guided by a Pain Management Physician, a Pain Management Psychologist, and a Mental Health and Addiction Specialist. The clinic offers an opportunity to present and discuss patients in your clinic with pain. Learn how to assess and manage your patients […]
Learning Objectives: By the end of this training people will know: The history of overdose prevention and opioid antagonist distribution for community members, including available formulations of antagonistsState of the research on opioid antagonist distribution, utilization, and outcome in the communityEvidence-based practices for overdose response and opioid antagonist administrationPresenters: Karla Wagner, Ph.D., Professor, University of Nevada, Reno […]
Project ECHO Nevada invites you to their upcoming 6 session free series entitled SBIRT For Health Professionals ECHO Series. This will be a series of 60-minute-long teleconference sessions in which providers will have the opportunity to speak with a multidisciplinary team of subject matter experts in the field of SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment health. This ECHO will […]
First and Third Wednesdays of each month | 8–9 am This clinic is a forum guided by a Pain Management Physician, a Pain Management Psychologist, and a Mental Health and Addiction Specialist. The clinic offers an opportunity to present and discuss patients in your clinic with pain. Learn how to assess and manage your patients […]
Nevada Assembly Bill 156 (AB156) is "an ACT relating to substance use disorders; providing for the separate accounting of certain money for the purchase of opioid antagonists; establishing the order in which a provider or program is required to prioritize persons for participation in certain publicly funded programs for the treatment of alcohol or other […]
Registration for the 5th annual Southern Nevada Substance Misuse and Overdose Prevention Summit is now open! The summit will be on Thursday, August 1st from 8am to 5pm at the Cox Pavilion (4505 S Maryland Pkwy #2022, Las Vegas, NV 89154). Parking will be included in your registration. Registration for this event costs $25 per person, however […]