Keri D. Hager – Helping Patients with Addiction…While Helping Yourself Get Through the Day

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During this roundtable session attendees will initially explore their implicit biases as it relates to addiction and medication-assisted treatment and use that insight as they develop skills to interact with people with addiction. Attendees will learn about and have the opportunity to practice four therapeutic interventions: 1) supportive confrontation regarding possible chemical dependency, 2) responding to lapses and relapses, 3) harm reduction strategies, and 4) education and countering stigma.

Learning Objectives

Pharmacists

1. Discuss how to strengthen knowledge & skills in talking with people about addition.
2. Describe how success in talking with people about addiction is less about what you say – much more about how you say it.
3. Appreciate that how you say it is a function of underlying attitudes, assmptions, & implicit biases.

Technicians

1. Discuss how to talk with people about addiction.
2. Describe how success in talking with people about addiction is less about what you say – much more about how you say it.
3. Explain how you say it is a function of underlying attitudes, assumptions, and implicit biases.

Keri Hager is a clinical pharmacist and faculty member at the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy. She has over a decade of primary care experience in family medicine and employee health providing comprehensive medication management (CMM). She has partnered with the Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment to offer CMM to clients in their opioid treatment and residential programs. Her focus is bridging transitions of care between treatment and biomedical care to optimize outcomes.