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