MATOD - Maryland Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence

MATOD Membership Meeting (Jan. 10)
2018-01-10 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Dix Building Basement, 55 Wade Ave, Catonsville, MD, 21228, United States
MATOD membership meetings are the 2nd Wednesday of every other month.
All meetings are held from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm and the Spring Grove Hospital Center, Dix Building Basement. The address is 55 Wade Avenue, Catonsville, MD 21227.
The 2018 meeting dates are : January 10, March 14, May 9, July 11, September 12 and November 14.

Co-occurring Disorders: Challenges and Solutions
2017-12-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Conference Center at Sheppard Pratt, 6501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 212204, United States
Join us and Kimberly A. Johnson, Ph.D., Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, at the Conference Center at Sheppard Pratt for this Wednesdays @ Sheppard Pratt lecture entitled “Co-occurring Disorders: Challenges and Solutions.”

MDSAM 2017 Educational Conference & Annual Meeting
2017-11-11 07:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Ten Oaks Ballroom, 5000 Signal Bell Ln, Clarksville, MD, 21029, United States
The practice of Addiction Medicine advances every day as local and national agencies attempt to respond to patients’ needs, new technologies are developed to enhance and extend treatment and monitoring, drug testing methods and best practices evolve, and the body of available research on addiction specific topics expands. Join us for a discipline-wide CME accredited Addiction Medicine update for DC and Maryland. All Addiction Medicine Clinicians & Professionals are invited!

MACDN 12th Annual Conference
2017-10-26 07:30 - 16:00 UTC | Richlin Ballroom, 1700 Van Bibber Rd, Edgewood, MD, 21040, United States
Target Audience: Addiction/Professional Counselors, Nurses, Social Workers, Program Directors and Therapists.
Participants will be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of depression on maintenance of substance use disorders;
Develop an understanding of public policy and public health responses to addic- tion through national case studies;
Identify the causes and scope of the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic in Maryland and recognize and respond to an opioid overdose with naloxone;
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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2017 Legislative Luncheon
2017-10-11 | CA
2017 Legislative Luncheon to honor and thank our Legislatures for their support of Behavioral Health treatment in Wednesday, October 11, 2017, with more details to follow.

Hill Day 2017
2017-10-02 - 2017-10-03 | CA
What is Hill Day?
The National Council’s Hill Day is the largest behavioral health advocacy event of the year. Held in partnership with 20 national mental health and addiction organizations, Hill Day gathers hundreds of behavioral health providers, C-suite level executives, board members, consumers and community stakeholders in D.C. for a day of sessions and workshops on federal behavioral health policy. After these sessions, Hill Day attendees take their message to Capitol Hill to advocate for better resources for mental health and addictions treatment in their communities.

Road to Recovery Conference: Legal Issues and the Treatment of Substance Use Disorder
2017-09-25 07:45 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21224, United States
An Addictions Conference for Professionals. Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research and the Clinical Trials Network.
Speakers and topics to be announced soon.
Registration: $60
Includes Continental Breakfast and Boxed Lunch
Counselors, Nurses, Social Workers earn up to 5.5 CEUs
For more information contact Jasmyne Jardot at jjardot1@jhmi.edu or 410-550-0490

MATOD Membership Meetings
2017-09-13 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Dix Building Basement, 55 Wade Ave, Catonsville, MD, 21228, United States
MATOD membership meetings are the 2nd Wednesday of every other month, from 12:00 – 2:00, in the Dix Building Basement.
The 2017 – 2018 dates are September 13, November 8, January 10, March 14, May 9 and July 11.
