Exploring Harm Reduction Strategies for People Who Use Drugs

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Exploring Harm Reduction Strategies for People Who Use Drugs. Learners can expect to learn about harm reduction, which is a philosophy, practice and approach to working with people who use drugs that focuses on prevention, risk-reduction and empowerment to let patients lead healthier and self-directed lives. The program will discuss examples of harm reduction strategies, evidence behind harm reduction and practical strategies for implementing harm reduction.

To discuss Harm reduction, we’ve invited one of Ohio State University’s Internal Medicine and Addiction experts. We’re pleased to introduce Associate Professor of Internal medicine Dr. Martin Fried. Marty is the founder and director of Ohio State University’s Primary Care Addiction Medicine clinic. He is also the co-founder of the CORE IM podcast.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Define Harm Reduction as a philosophy and multilayered set of strategies to promote the health, safety, autonomy, and dignity of people who use drugs (PWUD)
  • Identify public health approaches to Harm Reduction
  • Describe evidence-based harm reduction strategies to implement immediately in a primary care or hospital medicine practice

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Incorporating into practice
  • Sustained Behavior Change
  • Monitoring for Benefit
  • Local Resources
  • Legal Matters

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Webcast Producer at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Learn about Insomnia on On-line CME Webcast

OSUWexnerbloglogo2014 Learn about Insomnia on On-line CME Webcast. For many people, insomnia is a nightly occurrence, leading to nocturnal frustration and daytime fatigue. On this CME webcast, we’re going to explore insomnia, what causes it and what you can advise your patients to do about it. Our guests today are specialists in sleep medicine. Dr. Meena Khan is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and of Neurology, and Dr. Jesse Mindel, who is an Assistant Professor of Neurology.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: REVIEW basic approaches to insomnia treatment; REVIEW available behavioral and pharmacologic therapies for insomnia; Describe the epidemiology and health implications of chronic insomnia; DESCRIBE the psychological characteristic of those with chronic insomnia; and DESCRIBE the behavioral and environmental factors that perpetuate chronic insomnia.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Common causes of insomnia
  • Normal sleep patterns
  • Melatonin
  • Sleep binging
  • Circadian rhythm disturbances
  • Eye patches and background noise recordings
  • Antihistamines
  • Approach to the patient who wakes up and cannot fall back to sleep
  • Approach to temporary situational insomnia

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.
Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.