Addiction Pharmacology: In Teens and Young Adults

Description:

The course overviews the pharmacology of drug abuse and alcohol abuse by teens and young adults.  Descriptions of the epidemiology, pharmacology, health consequences, laboratory evaluation, and treatment considerations of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, inhalants, stimulants, hallucinogens, PCP, opiates, sedatives/hypnotics, tranquilizers, and club drugs is covered.  Discussion of signs and symptoms of occasional, problematic, abuse, and dependence is provided.  This offering is a core curriculum offering for professionals seeking education in fulfillment of certification requirements in addictions.  

Recommended additional reading: TIP 31: Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorde.r  This Treatment Improvement Protocol (Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders) presents information on identifying, screening, and assessing adolescents who use substances. The TIP focuses on the evidence-based best practice and instruments for identifying substance abuse problems among adolescents, conducting comprehensive assessments, and beginning treatment planning.  Accessed at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration store http://store.samhsa.gov/product/SMA09-4079

TIP 32: Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders.  This TIP, Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders, presents information on substance abuse treatment for adolescent clients. Adolescents differ from adults both physiologically and emotionally as they make the transition from child to adult and, thus, require treatment adapted to their needs. This TIP focuses on ways to specialize treatment for adolescents, as well as on common and effective program components and approaches being used today.  Accessed at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration store http://store.samhsa.gov/product/SMA08-4080

Objectives:   

1. Participants will be able to describe the effects of abused substances in adolescent populations.

2. Participants will be able to discuss the health consequences of substances of abuse.

3. Participants will be able to identify experimentation, abuse, and dependent substance use patterns.

4. Participants will be able to classify substances of abuse. 

Total CE Credits: 5 

Training Agenda:

Hour One: Tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, inhalants

Hour Two:  Stimulants, hallucinogens  

Hour Three: PCP, opiates

Hour Four: Sedatives/hypnotics

Hour Five: Tranquilizers, and club drugs

Content Area: Clinical Evaluation and Assessment, Adolescent Populations, Social and Clinical FOundations, Psychopharmacology, Addictions, Adolescent Issues, Special Populations, Behavioral DIsorder, Neruopsychology 

CE Broker Course #:  20-301155  10-1166532

Methods: Pretest, Study guide, post test, and evaluation, Q & A by e-mail.

Purpose:  This offering is intended to provide evidence-based information about alcohol and substances of abuse among adolescent populations.  This offering is a core curriculum offering for professionals seeking education in fulfillment of certification requirements in addictions.  Practitioners from various disciplines can expect to be familiarized with pharmacology (including signs and symptoms) of substances of abuse and alcohol among adolescent populations.