Annual Interfaith Institute on Recovery Registration
July 22-24, 2020
Renaissance Concourse Atlanta Airport Hotel
One Hartsfield Centre Parkway
Atlanta, GA
16.5 CE Hours
$79
This exciting Institute combining Faith and the Science of Recovery July 22 - July 24.
Approved for 16.5 Hours:
LPCA
NAADAC
Applied for
16.5 CE Hours (Pending) to:
ADACBGA
GACA
GSCSW
LPCA
NAADAC
NBCC
POST
KEYNOTE: Nzinga Harrison, MD
A well-respected physician and educator, Dr. Harrison is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer for Eleanor Health, an innovative provider of comprehensive treatment for opioid and other substance use disorders. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Biology with Spanish and Chemistry minors at Howard University, completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and General Psychiatry Residency at Emory University. She is Board-Certified in both Adult General Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine and has spent her career treating individuals with Serious Persistent Mental Illness and Addictive Diseases. Currently, she holds adjunct faculty appointment at the Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and provides expert consultant services to the Southeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center. She is Co-Founder of Physicians for Criminal Justice Reform, Inc. and Campaign Psychiatrist for Let’s Get Mentally Fit, a public education and stigma-reduction campaign.
Plenary
America's Opioid Crisis: Using Faith as a Catalyst for Change
Rev. Dr. Monteic A. Sizer
Opioid and MAT Track
- The Opioid Crisis: What Healthcare Professionals and Spiritual Leaders Need to Know
- The Stigma of Medication Assisted Treatment: What's the Truth? What's the Myth?
- Faith and MAT: Can We Just Get Along
- Update on Buprenorphine Treatment; A Scientific Review of Sublocade ™, an Extended-Release Injection
- America's Opioid Crisis: Using Faith as a Catalyst for Change
- Commonly Abused Prescription Medications; Awareness Strategies and Prevention
Faith and Recovery Track
- Establishing Faith's ROLE in the ROSC
- The Opioid Crisis: What Healthcare Professionals and Spiritual Leaders Need to Know
- Using Expressive Therapy Tools to Explore Spirituality and Recovery
- Faith and MAT: Can We Just Get Along
- From Couch to Mat: Integrating Yoga Faith into Therapy and Recovery
Other Workshops:
- How to Speak with your Healthcare Provider about Drug Use
- Neurobiology of Addiction
- How to Help Our Client’s Resolve Ambivalence towards Recovery
- Slim Pickings - How to Choose the Right Treatment Center
- Prosocial Connections and Contagious Recovery: What's Soul Got to Do, Got to Do With It?
- Providing Compassionate Care for Persons with Substance Use Disorder and Chronic Pain and How to Address Ethical Dilemmas
