Educational Activities Archives

This 90-minute webinar provides a clear and practical overview of essential supervision practices for both clinical and peer-based professionals working with individuals experiencing opioid, stimulant, and other substance use disorders. Participants will learn key supervision functions, effective communication strategies, documentation expectations, and methods for supporting professional growth while maintaining accountability. The session highlights how quality supervision enhances service effectiveness, supports ethical practice, and promotes workforce sustainability across treatment and recovery support settings.

This 90-minute webinar examines common ethical challenges encountered by certified addiction counselors, clinical supervisors and interns working with individuals affected by opioid, stimulant, and other substance use disorders. Participants will review core ethical principles, boundary management, confidentiality concerns, and decision-making frameworks relevant to real-world practice. Through case examples and guided discussion, the session equips attendees with practical tools to identify ethical risks early and respond in ways that protect clients, professionals, and the integrity of treatment services.

The webinar is intended to explore practical strategies for preventing opioid, stimulant, and other substance use disorders among children and youth affected by addiction in their families and communities. Participants will learn how early exposure to substance use, chronic stress, and community conditions can increase vulnerability over time—and how protective factors like connection, stability, belonging, and healthy coping skills can reduce risk. The session highlights what families, schools, and community helpers can do early to support resilience and interrupt cycles of addiction before they take hold.

This episode examines how these newer compounds differ pharmacologically, why they are more dangerous, and how clinicians can recognize and respond to kratom-related harms. Listeners will gain practical strategies for identifying kratom use disorder, managing withdrawal, and having informed, non-stigmatizing conversations with patients as these products continue to emerge and change.

Join this 1.5‑hour live virtual session featuring a multidisciplinary panel discussing interprofessional approaches to opioid withdrawal assessment. Learn about validated tools to assess opioid withdrawal, and then, through real‑world case examples, discuss professional roles and apply key concepts to practice.

Join this 1.5‑hour live virtual session to delve into the emerging prevalence of medetomidine within the drug supply and strategies to manage medetomidine-opioid withdrawal syndrome. Participants will explore real‑world scenarios through case examples presented by addiction experts, applying key concepts to clinical practice.