MACDN 12th Annual Conference

Target Audience: Addiction/Professional Counselors, Nurses, Social Workers, Program Directors and Therapists.

Participants will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of depression on maintenance of substance use disorders;
2. Develop an understanding of public policy and public health responses to addic- tion through national case studies;
3. Identify the causes and scope of the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic in Maryland and recognize and respond to an opioid overdose with naloxone;
4. Identify how Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is being implemented across Maryland; 5. Understand the Benefits of Empathy in Recovery;

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