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COVID-19 Information and Resources

PUBLIC HEALTH UPDATE FROM CDC AND SAMHSA:  As the situation with COVID-19 rapidly evolves, SAMHSA is promoting the use of evidence-based resources and practices related to the virus. To avoid duplication of efforts, SAMHSA-funded initiatives, including PCSS, are disseminating information provided by SAMHSA or the CDC. Refer to the following links: CDC’s COVID-19 website; SAMHSA’s Guidance for OTPs; SAMHSA’s TAP 34, Disaster Planning Handbook for Behavioral Health Treatment Programs. SAMHSA Tips For Social Distancing, Quarantine, And Isolation During An Infectious Disease Outbreak SAMHSA Guidance on managing emotionally SAMHSA Medicare Telemedicine Healthcare Provider Fact Sheet: Medicare coverage and payment of virtual services  SAMHSA COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Response and 42 CFR Part 2 Guidance On-demand PCSS webinars and modules will remain accessible through the PCSS website. In regards to in-person trainings (such as MAT waiver trainings), you will be notified of any changes either by PCSS or the sponsoring organization. If you have questions regarding any PCSS activities, contact pcss@aaap.org.   Please note our staff will be working remotely until at least March 30, but it is our hope that this will be a seamless transition that will not affect how we serve you and provide online trainings. Our priority is to make certain everyone is safe and healthy while we continue to provide you with the information you need on a timely basis.

PCSS Trainings

Now is the Perfect Time to Catch up on Your Online Trainings

As more and more conferences are canceled and practices utilize telemedicine as we practice social distancing, you may find yourself with some extra time. What better way to spend it than watching those webinars you wanted to participate in but couldn't? PCSSs webinars not only span a variety of topics pertaining to substance use disorder and treating chronic pain, but many also offer continuing education credit. If you haven't taken a look at PCSS's recorded webinars in a while, now may be a good time.

National Council for Behavioral Health Webinar: Recovery Oriented Systems of Care 101 for Prescribers

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Presenters: Tom Hill, MSW, National Council for Behavioral Health and Aaron Williams, MA, National Council for Behavioral Health  Webinar description: While use of medications and behavioral therapy are hallmarks of addiction treatment, more services are needed to facilitate lasting recovery. Recovery-oriented systems of care (ROSC) are a shift away from crisis-oriented, deficit-focused, and professionally-directed models of care to a vision of care that is designed in collaboration with people in recovery, emphasizes the hope and reality of long-term recovery, and recognizes the many pathways... [More information]

NACHC Webinar Taking Care of the Compassionate Care Team: Conversations about Moral Distress and Moral Injury

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Date: Thursday, March 26, 2020 Presenter: Presenter(s): Gerri Lamb, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Director of the Center of Advancing Interprofessional Practice, Education & Research (CAIPER), Arizona State University Webinar description: Primary care teams experience significant stress when they are not able to provide the care to patients as they believe they should. Moral distress, knowing the right thing to do but not being able to do it, contributes to burnout, now estimated to affect between one-third to one-half of physicians and nurses in the U.S. Members of primary care teams are in the best position to recognize... [ More information]

Did you miss this live ASPMN webinar from Jan. 22? The Functional Pain Scale: Changing the Conversation About Pain

This webinar discusses the rationale for moving away from establishing and evaluating a pain treatment on the basis of a numeric rating scale value to one that takes into account pain tolerability and the impact its treatment has on functioning. Validation of the Functional Pain Scale, its acceptability to patients and professionals, and next steps to change the conversation about pain will be explored. [Watch webinar]

PCSS Partner News

American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine

Partner with Mothers to Seek and Support Recovery Post Prenatal Opioid Exposure This new infographic outlines the fundamental opportunities presented to pediatricians to identify infants prenatally exposed to opioids and engage mothers with opioid use disorder into treatment and follow-up care. Described are the steps pediatricians can take to advance treatment and care for the mother-infant dyad within the context of the patient and family-centered medical home.  Substance Use During Pregnancy and Plans of Safe Care: Implications for Pediatricians, Mothers and Infants Punitive measures taken towards pregnant women are not in the best interest of the mother-infant dyad. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act’s (CAPTA) provisions around Plans of Safe Care (POSC) generated interest among pediatricians and their role in assuring that their patients and families receive individualized care within a family-centered system of services. This fact sheet captures the core questions asked by pediatricians.

News and Publications

Videos Created for Clinicians Treating Substance Use Disorders

Clinicians treating patients with opioid use disorder may find helpful a series of videos created by Boston Medical Center (BMC) Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) Training and Technical Assistance (TTA). The videos, featuring avatars, include: Addiction Impacts the Entire Family: Pearls for Providers; Tell Me What to Say: How to Approach Challenging Patient Conversations; The Unmet Need for Family Planning Services in Addiction Treatment Settings. HIV Prevention in People Who Inject Drugs: PrEP and PEP Intersection of Pain and Addiction Be Prepared: Develop an Overdose Response Plan Polysubstance Use: The Norm Not The Exception Caring for Young Adults with Substance Use Disorder

Anals of Internal Medicine In acute pain in prehospital settings, opioid and nonopioid analgesics do not differ for pain at 15 or 60 min* The American Journal on Addictions Case Series: Rapid Induction Onto Long Acting Buprenorphine Injection for High Potency Synthetic Opioid Users Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Community‐Based Settings: Outcome Related to Intensity of Services and Urine Drug Test Results JAMA Pediatrics Receipt of Addiction Treatment After Opioid Overdose in Medicaid-Enrolled Youths American Journal of Public Health A Case for Experiential Expertise in Opioid Overdose Surveillance* Drug and Alcohol Review Is there enough naloxone to deter the diversion? Effect of concurrent administration of intravenous naloxone on opioid agonist effects of intravenous buprenorphine: A randomised, double‐blind, within‐subject, crossover study among opioid‐dependent subjects* Pediatrics Mail-Back Envelopes for Retrieval of Opioids After Pediatric Surgery *Requires subscription or payment 

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Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI081968 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.