The Providers Clinical Support System-Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (PCSS-MOUD) is a program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and created in response to the opioid overdose epidemic. PCSS-MOUD’s goal is to provide evidence-based practices to improve healthcare and outcomes in the prevention of those at risk and treatment for individuals with an opioid use disorder (OUD). PCSS-MOUD is led by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) in collaboration with an extensive coalition of national professional and healthcare organizations. PCSS-MOUD provides multidisciplinary training, guidance, mentorship, and implementation support at no cost to healthcare and behavioral health professionals to identify and treat their patients using U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved (FDA) medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). The overarching goal of PCSS-MOUD is to increase healthcare professionals’ knowledge, skills, and confidence in providing evidence-based practices in the prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction of OUD.
PCSS-MOUD maintains and expands a comprehensive repository of training materials and educational resources to support evidence-based treatment of opioid use disorder. This repository includes an 8-hour MOUD course that meets the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) training requirement for prescribers to obtain or renew their DEA License Registration. In addition, PCSS-MOUD provides tailored education, training, mentorship consultation, and implementation support to multidisciplinary primary and specialty healthcare providers on team-based MOUD and general approaches for OUD screening, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction.
Target audience: PCSS-MOUD serves multidisciplinary clinicians, including Physicians (MD/DO), Physician Assistants (PAs), Nurse Practitioners (NPs), Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs), Certified Nurse-Midwifes (CNMs), nurses (LPN and RN), licensed counselors, social workers, dentists, pharmacists, health services administration staff, and the healthcare team.
