• Activity INFORMATION

  Overview

  Every 7 minutes in our country, a person dies from prescription drug overdose, while a child is also born approximately every 30 minutes dependent (not addicted!) upon opioids. However, those staggering numbers do not even include one of (if not the) most dangerous, yet socially-accepted substances known to mankind: alcohol (ethyl alcohol). Year after year, alcohol-related deaths easily surmount drug overdose deaths, and considering the incredible numbers involved in drug overdose deaths, clearly alcohol is having a huge impact on our society. As the “poster child” for the subjectivity of laws regarding substances of abuse, in shifting from being legal, to the age of prohibition, and then back again, alcohol truly begs one to ponder our overall “war on drugs.” This discussion is also part of the overall Substances of Abuse Specialty Pharmacist (SASP) certificate training program. So please join us for a "glass half full" approach to reviewing just how to drastically help our patients either with alcohol use disorder, or perhaps even when merely occasionally utilizing alcohol amongst other medications or substances of abuse.
  

  Handouts

  • Slide Document :   20066H04_2pp.pdf Download

  • Slide Document :   20066H04_6pp.pdf Download

  Financial Support By

  PharmCon

• Learning OBJECTIVES

  Pharmacist

  Recognize that ethyl alcohol’s consumption-related deaths total more than all drug overdoses annually.

  Recall alcohol withdrawal and alcohol relapse prevention pharmacological treatment options.

  Identify ethyl alcohol chemical properties, legal history, and pharmacology which applies to patient care.

• Activity ACCREDITATION

  Activity Type

  Knowledge

  CE Broker

  20-696561

  Universal Activity Number

  Pharmacist 0798-0000-20-066-H04-P
  

  PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

  PharmCon is an approved course provider for continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing. PharmCon is also recognized by the California Board of Nursing as a provider of nursing programs.

  In order to obtain a Statement of Credit, participants must score no less than a 70% on the activity's test and complete a program evaluation.

• Activity INSTRUCTION

  Faculty

  Mark  Garofoli, PharmD, MBA, BCGP, CPE, CTTS Assistant Professor, West Virginia University School of Pharmacy

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