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presented by Demetra Antimisiaris PharmD, CGP, FASCP
Financial— Demetra Antimisiaris receives compensation from MedBridge for the production of this course. There are no other relevant financial relationships. Nonfinancial— No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
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Demetra Antimisiaris PharmD, CGP, FASCP
Demetra Antimisiaris (Dr. Dee) is the director of the University of Louisville's Frazier Polypharmacy and Medication Management Program. This program is dedicated to education, research, and outreach regarding polypharmacy. In addition to teaching Pharmacology to medical and dental students, Dr. Dee provides a weekly polypharmacy clinic and clinical consult service with the U of L…
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1. What Physiological Processes in the Brain and CNS are Involved With Substance Abuse?
Learners need to understand the physiological and psychosocial drivers of substance abuse and addiction to contribute to the overall solution to the substance abuse epidemic that our society desperately needs. We will review the stress and anxiety triggers of the fight or flight response, and the resulting neural hormonal and epigenetic changes which drive substance abuse. This chapter explains the endogenous responses to stress and anxiety that impact substance abuse. The psychological and physiological aspects of pain will be discussed as well.
2. What Occurs at the Neuro-Receptor Level When Substance Abuse is Present?
This chapter helps the learner understand the pharmacological mechanisms of psychoactive and neuroactive drugs as well as the implication of long-term exposure to these substances. The principles of neuroplasticity and receptor up or down regulation, as well as tolerance, are presented here.
3. Common Substances of Abuse
This chapter will present an overview of primarily the prescription and over the counter substances of abuse that the healthcare provider and athletic trainer would possibly encounter. A brief discussion of street drugs, steroids, and supplements will be included, but the focus will be on prescription and over the counter substances.
4. Controlled Substance Management in the Clinical Setting
Healthcare providers and athletic trainers can provide a point of intervention in the growing epidemic of substance abuse. This chapter will cover recognizing a substance abuse problem (physical signs of opioid and street drug abuse, assessment of functional status to assess efficacy, necessity vs drug-seeking behavior), understanding detoxification, and options to support safe detoxification. This chapter will also discuss clinical policies to help stem substance abuse of prescription drugs, including controlled substance reporting programs implemented by many states, as well as factors that should be addressed in every setting to detect and discourage diversion. Diversion will be discussed as an aspect of patient abuse.
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