The ITMATTTRs2 Practice Team Training will help you identify and assess patients who are appropriate for MOUD, apply knowledge of buprenorphine to manage patients with OUD, help you build a clinical team that has knowledge, skills, and resources to treat OUD. For practices that have a MOUD certified prescriber, the practice team training will equip all staff members with the expertise and tools to support a successful MOUD program within a clinic. 

To learn more about the training visit the IT MATTTrs website here.

Any practice in the state of Colorado that has at least one provider with a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine. Each practice must commit to having all staff receive the 5 hours of training on the IT MATTTRs Curriculum.

Practices will receive $1,250 for completing the five-session series.

Each practice will need to assign a lead provider that will attend each session of the training

The IT MATTTRs Practice Team Training curriculum contains five 1-hour modules:

Click here to view the training resources.

Module 1: Opioids, Receptors, Colorado, and You.

• Pharmacology of Pure opioid agonists
• Neurobiology of Opioid Use DisordersEpidemiology of Prescription Opioid Misuse and Heroin Use
• Legislation: Drug Addiction Treatment Act (DATA 2000)
• MAT Pharmacology
• Full Opioid Antagonists
• Partial Opioid Agonists
• Medication Assisted Treatment
• Neurobiologic principles
• Efficacy
• Safety

Module 2: The Patient - Identifying, preparing, treating, and managing the patient.

• Patient Assessment
• Informed Consent for Medication Management
• Role of Non-Pharmacotherapy
• Behavioral health treatment
• Patient Monitoring
• Clinical & behavioral
• Laboratory
• PDMP
• Relapse and ongoing care
• OpiSafe

Module 3: The Practice - Preparing the practice, facility, and staff to offer MAT.

• Patient Centered Practice
• Office Management
• Medication Management
• Role of Non-Pharmacotherapy
• Behavioral health integration
• Patient Monitoring
• Induction and Stabilization, communicating with patients
• Long term follow-up
• Opisafe

Module 4: Special Populations - Offering care to special populations like adolescents & pregnant women.

• Adolescents and Young Adults
• Pregnancy, Neonatal Abstinence, Breastfeeding
• Medical Co-Morbidities:
• Psychiatric Co-Morbidities
• Psychiatric Assessment, Major Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders (PTSD), Personality Disorder
• Acute and Chronic Pain
• Pain and addiction
• Use of opioid analgesics
• Buprenorphine Maintenance

Module 5: SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) / Practice Facilitation meeting to review questions and discuss integration of MATerials.

 

IT MATTTRs Curriculum - Behavioral Health

The IT MATTTRs Practice Team Training curriculum for behavioral health organizations contains 6 modules completed in five sessions:

Module 1: What Behavioral Health Providers need to know about treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) with buprenorphine.

Module 2: Impact of OUD.

Module 3: Pharmacology of buprenorphine and opioids.

Module 4: Detection and diagnosis.

Module 5: Working with patients on buprenorphine.

Module 6: Logistics of Providing Behavioral Health Services for OUD.

• MATerials 
• TED Talk Video - Johann Hari: Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong
• Video - Macklemore "Drug Dealer"
• Video - Macklemore discussing opioids with President Barack Obama