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 Buprenorphine Treatment
A Training for Multidisciplinary Addiction Professionals
- The Buprenorphine Awareness Blending Team was charged with developing an awareness training package for multidisciplinary (non-physician) addiction professionals. The primary goal of this training package is to create awareness about buprenorphine among multidisciplinary addiction professionals.
- Blending Team Members:
NIDA:
Gregory Birgham, Ph.D., Maryhaven, Community Treatment Program, Ohio Valley Node – CTN
Leslie Amass, Ph.D., Friends Research Institute, Inc., Pacific Region Node–CTN
Eric Strain, M.D. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
SAMHSA/ATTC:
Chair: Thomas Freese, Ph.D. Pacific Southwest ATTC
Gail Dixon, MA, Southern Coast ATTC
Glenda Clare, MA, Central East ATTC
Beth Finnerty, MPH, Pacific Southwest ATTC
- Pilot: Buprenorphine and Office-Based Treatment of Opioid Dependence; Opiate Awareness: Assessment and Treatment. Held on August 17-18, 2004, Omaha, Nebraska. The product was released for dissemination in December, 2004.
- Training Package Contents:
- A 6-hour classroom training program provding an overview of buprenorphine treatment
- A self-paced CD-ROM awareness course on buprenorphine treatment
- An annotated bibliography and research articles.
S.M.A.R.T. Treatment Planning
Utilizing the Addiction Severity Index (ASI): Making Required Data Collection Useful"
- The primary goal of this training package is to transform required “paperwork” into clinically useful information. The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is one of the most widely used tools for the assessment of substance use-related problems.
- Blending Team Members:
NIDA:
A. Thomas McClellan, Ph.D., Treatment Research Institute
Deni Carise, Ph.D., Treatment Research Mountain Institute
Meghan Love, Treatment Research Institute
SAMHSA/ATTC
Chair: Richard Spence, Ph.D., Gulf Coast
Nancy Roget, M.A., Mountain West
Patricia Stilen, LCSW, CADC, Mid-America
- Release date – Summer, 2005.
- Training Package Contents:
- A 6-hour classroom training program and a 4-week online version
- Examines how ASI information can be used for clinical applications and assist in program evaluation activities
- Identifies difference between program-driven and individualized treatment planning process
- Provides a familiarization with the process of treatment planning
- Defines guidelines and legal considerations in documenting client status
- Instructional materials
- Course objectives, agenda, and training recommendations
- Training script and trainer notes
- PowerPoint slides and handouts (DC-ROM) including an ASI Narrative Report and case examples
- Reference List
Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency (MIA:STEP)
- A new package of treatment improvement products has emerged from the work of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network (CTN). A Motivational Interviewing Assessment protocol has produced improvements in frequency of client attendance and retention in treatment during the first month of care, two predictors of positive treatment outcome.
- Blending Team Members:
NIDA:
Sam Ball, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine
John Hamilton, LMFT, LMG Programs Community treatment Program
Steve Martino, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine
SAMHSA/ATTC
Chair: Steve Gallon, Ph.D., Northwest Frontier
Sherry Ceperich, Ph.D., Mid-Atlantic
Maria del Mar Garcia, M.S.W., M.H.S.,
Caribbean Basin
Denise Pyle, LPC, NCC, Mid-Atlantic
Edna Quinones, PhD, Caribbean Basin & Hispanic
- The first hand-off meeting was held in May, 2004. No current anticipated date of release.
- Training Package Contents—MIA:STEP Products:
- Brief materials help introduce the MI Assessment protocol to key stakeholders.
- MI Assessment Protocol provides a full description of the protocol, research report on the results of the NIDA clinical trials, talking points and PowerPoint slides.
- Teaching Tools for Assessing and Enhancing MI Skills include brief handouts describing principles and skills plus self-assessment review criteria.
- Supervisor Tape Rating Guide describes a system for monitoring clinician MI adherence and competence.
- Demonstration Materials include demonstration tapes in English and Spanish, MI Assessment transcripts, completed skill rating worksheets, feedback forms, and skill development plans.
- Supervisor Training Curriculum for a 10-hour event focuses on an overview of how to best utilize the entire MIA:STEP package plus skill development in the rating of recorded MI Assessment interviews and their use in building counselor skills
Short-Term Opioid Withdrawal Using Buprenorphine: Findings and Strategies from a NIDA Clinical Trials Network Study
- The primary goal of this training package is to instruct providers on the administration of a 13-day buprenorphine taper for opioid dependent patients. Topics will include methods of evaluation and induction, the taper schedule, and use of ancillary medications during treatment.
- Blending Team Members:
NIDA
Gregory Brigham, PhD, Maryhaven Community Treatment Program
Judith Harrer, PhD, VA Medical Center Community Treatment Program
Dennis McCarty, PhD, Oregon Health Sciences University
SAMHSA/ATTC
Chair: Thomas Freese, Ph.D., Pacific Southwest
Beth Finnerty, MPH, Pacific Southwest
Kay Gresham-Morrison, LCSW, ACSW, Southeast
Susan Storti, PhD, RN, New England
- The first hand-off meeting was held July 19-20, 2005. Anticipated completion date: Spring, 2005
- Training Objectives
- Describe opioid withdrawal and the role of medical interventions in it
- Understand the results of new research on one strategy for helping patients withdraw from opioid using buprenorphine
- Training Package Contents
- A 4-hour classroom training program providing instruction on using buprenorphine for opioid dependent patients. Including
- Rationale for providing detoxification to opioid dependent patients
- Characterization of opiate withdrawal
- Goals of detoxification
- Results of the CTN studies
- Implementation training
- Patient andd treatment staff perspectives
- Overdose risk followin detoxification
Promoting Awareness of Motivational Incentives
- The Promoting Awareness of Motivational Incentive Blending Team has been tasked with developing awareness materials (CD, PowerPoint, Resources, Video). Incentives used as interventions provide tangible rewards to patients for reaching concrete targeted behaviors, and thus is based firmly in sound principles of behavioral pharmacology.
- Blending Team Members:
NIDA
Nancy Petry, Ph.D., Yale University Psychotherapy Development Center
Scott Kellogg, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University
John Hamilton, LMG Programs
SAMHSA/ATTC
Chair: Lonnetta Albright, Great Lakes
Anne Helene Skinstad, Ph.D., Prairielands
Amy Shanahan, M.S., C.A.S.A.C., Northeast
- The first hand-off meeting was held December 3, 2005 and the expected release date is Spring, 2006.
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