Pcss Mat Webinar

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Pcss mat webinar.

The pcss implementation project within pcss provides implementation technical assistance ta to healthcare organizations and providers for the use and or expansion of sud services including mat with a focus on opioid use disorder oud. Improving mat access and quality through collaborative care. Medication assisted treatment mat of substance use disorders involves a combination of a medications that targets the brain and psychosocial interventions e g counseling skills development aimed at improving treatment outcomes. Pcss implementation pcss i launches new initiative to meet your clinical needs.

Research shows that medications and therapy together may be more. Pcss has the resources and training you need to meet the needs of your patients. This activity will allow pas to fulfill the 8 hour portion of the 24 hour mat waiver training requirement. Pcss webinars pcss educational series.

In accordance with the comprehensive addiction and recovery act cara pas must complete 24 hours of specialized training to prescribe buprenorphine one of three medications approved by the fda for the treatment of opioid use disorder. People who provide mat services work in a range of prevention health care and social service settings. Medications for addiction treatment is the use of medications for treating addiction. Our education and training resources were developed for primary care providers.

Funding for this initiative was made possible in part by grant no. Providers clinical support system pcss is a national training and clinical mentoring project developed in response to the prescription opioid misuse epidemic and the availability of pharmacotherapies to treat opioid use disorder. Samhsa offers a variety of training resources on medication assisted treatment mat as well as other substance use disorder treatment topics to educate and assist programs and practitioners to provide evidence based treatment. The project is geared toward primary care providers who wish to treat oud.

As a pcss partner apa offers webinars presented by nationally recognized clinical experts researchers and government officials so clinicians have access to the latest evidence based practices for effective treatment options for their patients. Free waiver training to prescribers so they can obtain their x waiver data 2000 waiver to prescribe suboxone buprenorphine for opioid addiction. Nor does mention of trade names commercial practices or organizations imply endorsement by the u s.