Prescribers Care: Facing Fentanyl Together
The Fentanyl Crisis: What You Need to Know Now
Learn along with colleagues and local leaders. Providers have adopted safe prescribing practices, increased use of non-narcotic pain management strategies, and made Medication for Addiction Treatment (MAT) easier to access than ever before.
MATE CME Available.*
Please join us for one of these events!
- Tuesday, May 21st • 5:30–8:00pm
Wood Ranch Country Club
301 Wood Ranch Parkway
Simi Valley, CA
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- Thursday, May 23rd • 5:30–8:00pm
Hyatt Regency Westlake
880 S. Westlake Blvd.
Westlake Village, CA 91361
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Free to Licensed Health Prescribers. Advance registration required.
Dinner & refreshments will be served.
Desired Outcomes
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Critically analyze the impact and risk of the Fentanyl Epidemic on our population
- Integrate this analysis into an effective risk assessment for your patients
- Effectively manage the risks of the Fentanyl Epidemic for your patients
- Consider ethnic, cultural, and societal issues surrounding the use of opioids, tolerance, and addiction and address these issues appropriately
- Reflect on the patient populations most affected and consider how implicit bias may impact appropriate care of these patients
The presentational methods for this activity are Case Presentation with Learner Participation and Lecture with Q&A. The activity content is geared toward all physician specialties. This activity will encompass the following Desirable Physician Attributes: Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Medical Knowledge, Professionalism, and Practice-Based Learning & Improvement.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please call Community Memorial Hospital at (805) 948-5011 should you require special assistance.
If you have questions regarding this series, please contact Shane Meserve at smeserve@giveanhour.org
Join the Prescribers Care Discussion!
Together we are creating change in our community.
Panelists
Chris Young, M.D.
Ventura County Chief Medical Examiner
Sergeant John Hajducko
Ventura County Sheriff’s Department
Joseph C. Vlaskovits, M.D., FAPA
Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry, and Addiction Medicine
Program Director, Community Memorial Healthcare Psychiatry Residency Program
Faculty, Ventura County Medical Center Primary Care Addiction on Medicine Fellowship
Medical Director, Substance Use Treatment Services, Ventura County Behavioral Health
Tipu Khan, M.D., FAAFP, FSAM
Chief of Addiction Medicine at VCMC
Family, Emergency, and Addiction Medicine
Fellowship Director, Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Faculty, Family Medicine Residency Program, Ventura County Medical Center
Adjunct Clinical Professor, USC Keck SOM
Matthew Lamon, D.O.
Family and Addiction Medicine
Core Faculty, Ventura County Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program
Associate Program Director, VCMC Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Made possible through funding from Ventura County Behavioral Health Department, in collaboration with Community Memorial Hospital.
*The MATE (Medication Access and Training Expansion) Act requires new or renewing DEA licensees to complete eight (8) hours of training on the treatment and management of patients with substance use disorders.
Community Memorial Hospital is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Community Memorial Hospital designates each live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PREVIOUS TRAININGS & EVENTS
- National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit 2019
- Western States Opioid Summit, San Diego - November 7 & 8, 2019
- COAST Year One Progress Event - November 12, 2019
- National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit 2018
- Opioid Solutions Summit - August 29, 2017
- Ventura County’s Benzodiazepine Performance Improvement Project Award, CAPH/SNI Annual Conference - December 7, 2016
- Informing the Community: Plane of Pills Media Event - May 18, 2016
- Safe Pain Medicine Prescribing Policy Launched Countywide - January 29, 2015
SUPPORTING PRESCRIBERS WITH TRAINING
Prescribers may underestimate the risks of opioid addiction while overestimating painkiller benefits. The Ventura County Rx Abuse & Heroin Workgroup offers prescribers, hospitals and clinics up-to-date information and training for safe prescribing and on-site patient education. Safe prescriber education addresses the opioid epidemic by training prescribers to respond before opioids are prescribed. See the Safe Prescribing Toolkit.
When opioids are used, start low and go slow:
- Assess pain and function
- Consider if non-opioid therapies are appropriate
- Talk to patients about treatment plan
- Evaluate risk of harm of misuses
- Identify drug misuse/addiction
- Query CURES 2.0 to confirm patient information
