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2008 Life-Long Learning Series New Horizons - Integrating Motivational Styles Strategies and Skills with Pharmacotherapy This learning series will educate participants on motivational approaches to help alcohol dependent clients make positive behavior change in their lives. Seminars will discuss how addiction counselors and other helping professionals can utilize a motivational style in addiction treatment and integrate appropriate motivational strategies to help the alcohol dependent clients move through the Stages of Change. New Innovations in Opioid Treatment: Buprenorphine The goal of this learning series is to bring together addiction professionals to discuss medication-assisted treatment and to present unbiased information that can be used to assess the best possible treatment for patients. This educational program will discuss the four facets of opioid dependence and addiction (biological, psychological, social and spiritual), addiction as a disease and the scientific evidence to support this claim. This seminar will also address the three FDA-approved medications for opioid dependence, applying strategies to match patients to the most appropriate therapy, methods of motivating patients in opioid dependence treatment and building cooperative relationships between addiction professionals and prescribers.   SAMHSA Launches E-Learning Courses Acamprosate: A New Medication for Alcohol Use Disorders The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA's) Knowledge Application Program (KAP) is pleased to offer its first online e-learning course, "Acamprosate: A New Medication for Alcohol Use Disorders." The course provides information about the use, side effects, and contraindications of acamprosate; information to discuss with clients; and a comparison of medications used to treat alcohol use disorders. The course is self-paced so that users can log out and return later to continue where they left off. The course includes interactive exercises, case examples, and a test. Counselors who successfully complete the course receive one NAADAC-approved continuing education unit (CEU) at no cost and can print out their CEU certificate. Full Listing of KAP Educational Programs Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center (CEATTC) Online Courses Take low-cost online courses on a number of subjects, including hepatitis C, understanding research concepts and buprenorphine. Complete Course Details Vendome Group Webinars Vendome Group, publishers of Addiction Professional magazine, invite you to a website featuring upcoming and past webinars. Complete Course Details Medication Management for Addiction Professionals: Campral Series The 2006 NAADAC Life-Long Learning Series - Medication Management for Addiction Professionals: Campral Series has been developed into a free online course. This course is specifically designed for addiction services professionals and provides six (6) continuing education credits and a printable certificate of completion. Complete course details Blending Solutions NAADAC’s Life-Long Learning Series Blending Solutions: Integrating Motivational Interviewing with Pharmacotherapy online course will discuss the four principles of Motivational Interviewing; motivating patients in treatment using the Stages of Change model; the four medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of alcohol dependence; matching patients to the most appropriate pharmacotherapy given their readiness to change; and specific interviewing methods and skills for alcohol dependent patients considering pharmacotherapy. The goal of this online course is to educate addiction and other helping professionals of the specific skills necessary for integrating Motivational Interviewing and pharmacotherapy with the Stages of Change model by utilizing live trainer instruction, video clips of counseling interactions and patient testimonials. Visit www.naadac.org Knowledge Center for more details.     Basics of Addiction Counseling Independent Study Course This package includes the Basics of Addiction Counseling: Desk Reference and Study Guide and an examination. Those who successfully complete the course and examination will receive 12 hours of continuing education credit. Visit www.naadac.org Knowledge Center for more details.