Cost
PPA Members -$40
Non-members - $80
Student Members - FREE

1.5 Continuing Education Credits

Program Description:  

This presentation will introduce the underlying biology of opioid addiction.  It will explore how addiction should be considered a chronic relapsing brain disease.  Finally, the discussion will explore the use of pharmacological agents in treatment of opioid addiction (MAT; medication-assisted treatment) as one option to help psychologists and psychiatrists address this societal concern.

Program Learning Objectives: At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the relationship between drugs of abuse and natural brain messengers;
2. Explain how drugs of abuse change brain structure and function; and
3. Convince someone that opioid addiction is a brain disease and should be treated as such.

This program is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.  PPA is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  PPA maintains responsibility for the program and its content.