Products and Resources Catalog

Expert presenter bios at the 2015 Improving Care for Substance Use, HIV and/or HCV in Adolescents: Effective Approaches for Assessing, Treating, and Engaging Teens

This handout described how to monitor substance use in adolescents. Created by Catherine Stanger, Ph.D.

Adolescent Conference 2015 - Agenda

This presentation described: (1) the epidemics of HIV and HCV among US adolescents and young adults with regional examples. (2) the HIV continuum of care for Adolescents and Young Adults. (3) the value of HIV treatment, and current antiretroviral treatment guidelines and recent updates in care and treatment (4) how to incorporate HIV and HCV prevention, screening and linkage to care into your work with youth. Presented by Cathryn Samples, M.D.

Dr. Kari Franson from the University of Colorado's Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences shares information on the long-term negative outcomes marijuana use has on developing adolescents.

Under Federal law, marijuana is still an illegal substance, yet 23 states and Washington DC have legalized medical marijuana, and four states have decriminalized marijuana for recreational use. With this shift in policy and many other states expected to follow suit, we will need to consider ways to address the growing impact and consequences of legalization. Dr. Rosalie Pacula, Director of the Bing Center for Health Economics at the RAND Corporation, will examine in this video the variance

ATTC Network Efforts and Activities in Integrating Substance Use Disorder and Health Care Services

The main goals of this white paper are to emphasize the need for better integration of substance use disorder (SUD) and health care services and describe an array of effective models, interventions and implementation strategies for treating SUDs in health care settings, highlighting efforts of the ATTC Network.

Dr. Wilson M. Compton, Deputy Director at NIDA, highlights the adverse effects of marijuana use can have on the brain, heart, and respiratory. The video also provides some information on second hand exposure and current marijuana potency.

Eight, 1-page color infographics (Four in English, four in Spanish) covering 1) Effects on the body 2) Use and educational outcomes, 3) Effects on pregnancy and newborns, and 4) Medical use.

Dr. Yifrah Kaminer from the University of Connecticut Health gives an overview of the latest research on the marijuana's effects on the brain and how legalization affects states' SUD treatment and prevention systems.

This training presentation provides information about the use of Buprenorphine in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorders.

This training presentation address Medication Assisted Treatment for Pregnant or Parenting Women Offenders with a Substance Use Disorder.

The purpose of this introductory training is to provide HIV clinicians (including, but not limited to physicians, dentists, nurses, and other allied medical staff, therapists and social workers, and counselors, specialists, and case managers) with a detailed overview of substance abuse and HIV among youth.

The purpose of this full-day, interactive, practice-based training is to provide HIV clinicians (including, but not limited to physicians, dentists, nurses, and other allied medical staff, therapists and social workers, and counselors, specialists, and case managers) with a detailed overview of screening patients for at-risk alcohol and other drug use and conducting a brief intervention with patients to reduce their at-risk substance use.

This Issue Brief describes the ATTC Network’s plans to advance the integration of care.

This 4-hour course is on Motivational Interviewing (MI), a form of collaborative conversation for strengthening a person’s own motivation and commitment to change by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance and compassion. This course takes learners on a tour of the essential skills used to strengthen an individual’s motivation for behavioral change.

90-minute presentation targeted to parole and probation officer. The learning objectives inlcude 1) Identify signs & symptoms of community correctional fatigue 2) Develop a personalized self-care plan to prevent community correctional fatigue 3)Identify actions and behaviors that violate healthy boundaries 4) Provide at least two examples of self-care and/or strategies to manage community correctional staff fatigue

Article featured in the Federal Probation September 2014 issue– Addressing Responsivity Issues with Criminal-Justice Involved Native Americans. Co-authored by PSATTC staff focusing on the use of Motivational Interviewing to engage Native American offenders.

La Administración de Salud Mental y Abuso de Sustancias (conocida como SAMHSA por sus siglas en inglés) es una agencia del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Sociales de los Estados Unidos que tiene como visión el desarrollo de una vida en la comunidad para todos.

The goal of this training course is teach participants how to develop their skills to deliver Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). The assumption in designing this course is that participants have already completed the self-paced online course (Foundations of SBIRT) that introduced the topic of SBIRT. The aim of this training course is to help participants to (1) develop skills related to SBIRT, and to (2) begin a conversation around implementation of SBIRT.

The Faith-Based Education and Training Series features five curricula that were developed through a partnership between PSATTC, AAAOD/LAM, and FRI. Each curriculum includes fully articulated trainer notes.

The SBIRT Provider Card was created for use by practitioners as a quick reference and a visual tool to use with patients during a brief intervention. The card includes low-risk drinking limits, an alcohol risk calculator, a risk level pyramid, the readiness ruler, and a zone of use chart for AUDIT and DAST scores, in addition to prompts designed to assist the practitioner during the interview.

E-newsletter focused on management of benzodiazepines in medication-assisted treatment.