Events

11th C. Everett Koop New Hampshire Addiction Medicine Symposium: Harm Reduction in an Opioid Era: Promoting the Health & Dignity of Affected Individuals & Communities As a result of attending […]

Funded by the Attorney General's Office, Gordon Smith, Executive Vice President of the Maine Medical Association, will: 1. Provide participants with updated information on Maine PL Chapter 488 and associated […]

Learning outcomes:  Participants will be able to discuss mental health services research methods.  Participants will be able to use and interpret inferential and descriptive statistics. This will enable them to […]

Dr. Rawson oversees clinical trials on pharmacological and psychosocial addiction treatments. He has led addiction research and training projects for the United Nations, World Health Organization, and the U.S. State […]

In light of the new opioid laws, Elisabeth Fowlie Mock will present alternative treatments to pain: 1. Discuss alternative treatments for chronic pain management. 2. Highlight the team based approach […]

Please join us for Pediatric Grand Rounds presenting Dr. Steven Chapman of Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. You can join in person or online via webcast: http://med.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/education/pediatric_grand_rounds_live.html

Join this webinar to learn about the impact of alcohol and other drugs on women’s health and best practices to identify and intervene for substance use among women. Presenters: Kaylin […]

Roger Vilardaga, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Addiction Science and Technology at Duke University and Affiliate Professor at Duke’s Global Digital Health Science Center and the […]

"Whether in the context of a brief intervention or in an ongoing counseling relationship, when patients talk about their intrinsic motivation, they are more likely to make that change. Motivational […]

A free 8-hour Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) buprenorphine waiver training will take place on Friday, March 9, from 8:30AM-5:00PM at Elliot Health System in Manchester, NH. The training is sponsored by […]

Substance misuse and substance use disorders often have an adverse impact on families and their individual members, including children. Yet little attention is paid to the impact of SUDs on […]

This is a rare opportunity to chronicle women's treatment, from its beginning to the future, highlighting important issues that are in dire need of our focus and innovation today. In […]

Medications to treat opioid use disorder have been underutilized despite being an effective approach to reduce overdose deaths. Buprenorphine is one such effective treatment. Though the number of certified prescribers […]

Meets: Three Tuesdays on April 24 & May 1 & May 8, 2018 from 6:00pm to 8:15pm Free Supper: Available starting at 5:30pm Free Onsite Childcare: With pre-registration Scholarships Available […]

The presentation will briefly touch on the depth of the opioid crisis, the closed system of distribution enforced by the DEA and the practitioner’s role in the closed system and […]

What is the definition of disease and why is it particularly important for addiction to be emphasized as a disease? This presentation is part of a four-part webcast series that […]

Approximately 1.8 of the nation's college students meet the medical criteria for substance misuse or dependence. Increasing numbers of students report high levels of anxiety, hopelessness, and other symptoms of […]

The New Hampshire Medical Society, NH Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and New England Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network are pleased to offer this […]

This conference is an educational opportunity for clinicians, service providers, prevention specialists, community members, parents, and others to discuss the impact of prenatal substance exposure, how to prevent it, and […]

This webinar series is part of the Caring for ME initiative. The goals of Caring for ME are to support prevention efforts; maintain a compassionate and trauma-informed approach to chronic […]

Methadone saves lives. A large systematic review published in 2017 showed unequivocally that methadone reduces mortality among people with opioid use disorders. In the context of an opioid overdose epidemic, […]

What is the nature and extent of discrimination toward individuals with substance use disorder? What is the origin and perpetuating factors to this discrimination, and how do we tackle the challenge […]

NH Medical Society, NH Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network are pleased to offer this FREE buprenorphine waiver training. […]

In San Diego, California, the conference will feature a wide range of excellent international panels and presentations that address the current science on substance use disorders and addiction treatment and […]

What would the treatment and public health landscape look like if we were to completely eradicate discriminatory practices? What steps would need to be taken to ensure this happens? This […]

Join SAMHSA for a Technical Assistance Coalition webinar with the National Council for Behavioral Health discussing the importance of patient-centered care for individuals with serious mental illness who are involved […]

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) invites you to a conversation with national leaders about peer […]

Presenter(s): Scott Winiecki, MD, Team Lead, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Professional Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement Staff, Safe Use Team, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) About the webinar: This […]

The New Hampshire & Vermont Medical Societies, NH Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services, New England ATTC, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield are pleased to offer a FREE buprenorphine waiver course at Cheshire Medical Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Keene. Available for physicians, APRNs & PAs interested in seeking their waiver […]

Webinar Objectives: Provide an overview of trends in suicide in Maine and parallels with the opioid crisis and highlight potential relationships to substance abuse. Highlight best practices on suicide identification, risk assessment, intervention and management in healthcare settings. Discuss systemic implementation of suicide prevention and protocol development across hospital/practice systems. About the Speaker: Greg Marley, […]

This webinar will define pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV and summarize the evidence of PrEP’s safety and efficacy for preventing HIV infection, focusing on populations who use substances. It will also describe research aimed at increasing access and adherence to PrEP among individuals who use methamphetamine in Seattle, WA. The webinar is free, however, registration […]

The ​Primary ​Care ​Behavioral ​Health ​Conference (sponsored by the University of Vermont) ​aims ​to ​enhance ​clinicians’ ​capacity ​to ​treat ​some ​of ​the ​most ​challenging ​clinical ​cases ​presenting ​to ​primary ​care. ​The ​conference ​brings ​together ​respected ​clinical ​and ​policy ​leaders ​in Vermont from ​different ​specialties ​of ​the ​integrated ​care ​medical ​home ​to ​detail ​novel ​approaches ​to […]

Please join us for a Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) seminar with Katie Witkiewitz, PhD New Perspectives on Addiction Relapse and Recovery: An Idiographic Contextual Approach Topic: Treatments for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and other addictive disorders have progressed considerably over the past 30 years. Yet, there is still lack of consensus about […]

Part of the Essential Substance Abuse Skills Webinar Series Speaker: Sean A. Bear 1st, BA, CADC, Meskwaki Tribal Nation

Course Description: This course will provide basic group counseling skills that apply evidence-based addiction research into real world practice. Skills that address heterogeneous group populations (e .g., stage of the recovery process, age, gender, cultural diversity, sexual orientation, dual diagnoses, socioeconomic status, education, and support systems) unique to substance use treatment will be provided. This […]

This webinar aims to describe programs that are currently underway including the supportive evidence to capitalize on the time that a patient spends in the acute care setting to promote health and therapeutic engagement while minimizing future harm. Presenter Dr. Michael Lynch is a board certified emergency physician and medical toxicologist. He is the medical […]

This webinar is part of a series on research-based integrated health care topics. Current and timely subjects of interest to American Indian and Alaska Native behavioral healthcare issues are presented using evidence-based information by nationally recognized speakers who are experts in their field. This series offers one-hour sessions on the 4th Wednesday of each month. […]

This conference presents valuable information and resources for consumers, family members and those in the behavioral health field Presented by: NH Suicide Prevention Council, NH Public Health Network, Youth Suicide Prevention Assembly, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) New Hampshire in partnership with The Injury Prevention Center at the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD). Sponsors: […]

The care of the emergently ill or injured patient provides unique challenges in a rural or critical access setting. Join Dartmouth’s Center for Rural Emergency Services and Trauma (CREST) for its 11th annual symposium designed for regional emergency medicine and trauma providers by experts in austere, out of hospital, and tertiary rural emergency care. The […]