Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
American Society of Addiction Medicine
This online course explores what occurs in the brain of a person with addiction in terms of the brain's neurobiology. Using the biopsychosocial model, learners examine neurobiological processes as well as social and environmental factors that can increase an individual's risk for addiction. Learners explore how traumatic events in childhood pay predispose individuals to develop addiction and review key processes such as triggering and causes of return to use in patients.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Dr. Cara Poland, M.D., M.Ed., FACP, DFASAM
American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Expert
American Society of Addiction Medicine
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the biopsychosocial model of addiction and its implications for the prevention and treatment of the disease of addiction.
- Explain what occurs in the brain of a person with addiction in terms of the brain’s neurobiology.
- Explain how the understanding of addiction as a chronic, treatable disease impacts the survival and recovery of people with addiction.
- Describe how traumatic events in childhood may predispose people to develop addiction.
- Explore the roles social and environmental factors play in addiction.
- Explore triggering and causes of relapse in patients with substance use disorder.
Syllabus
- What Does Addiction Do to the Brain?
- The Pleasure/Reward Pathway
- What Causes the Development of Substance Use Disorders?
- Environmental Factors That Contribute to Addiction
- The Impact of Traumatic Events in Childhood
Issued on 16th April 2023
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