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Audio-Digest Substance Abuse (Sponsored Link)
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...9 issues (2 hours per issue) for total of 16 hours.
Awarded by....Audio-Digest Foundation.
Cost...........$21.99 or $24.99 per issue depending on which audio format you choose (15% discount if you order all 9).
Format...Online Audio MP3 or Audio CD.
Target Audiences...Addiction Medicine (or any physician who treats patients with addiction problems).
Educational material last updated...2011.
Financial Support...None Stated. 
Expiration of CME credit...Three years after release.

Audio-Digest Substance Abuse is a compilation of the best Audio-Digest lectures concerning addiction and substance abuse. Some recent titles include:
Addiction 101: neurobiology, evaluation, and management; Another intoxicated patient? A critical care approach to reducing the risks of alcohol withdrawal; Substance use and psychiatric comorbidity; Depression and alcohol; Motivational interviewing in addiction; The case for treating addiction as a chronic disease; Medically supervised withdrawal; Use, abuse, and untoward effects of benzodiazepines; and Office–based treatments for opioid and alcohol dependence.

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Improving Outcomes in Chronic Pain (Sponsored Link)
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...Up to 14.55 hours.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences...PAIN MANAGEMENT (or any physician who treats patients with pain).
Financial Support...None.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....California, Oregon, Rhode Island and West Virginia.

Improving Outcomes in Chronic Pain will help you to:
Assess and measure pain and its effects on your patients; choose appropriate therapies for chronic pain; better manage common pain syndromes; and safeguard your practice from drug abuse and diversion.

Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (Sponsored Link)
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences...PAIN MANAGEMENT (or any physician who treats patients with pain).
Financial Support...None.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain will help you to: 
Diagnose and manage chronic low back pain; utilize appropriate long-term opioid treatment; and safeguard your practice from drug abuse and diversion.

Recognizing and Managing Opioid Misuse (Sponsored Link)
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...1.0.
Awarded by....University of Arizona College of Medicine at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.
Cost...........$25 per hour.
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences...PAIN MANAGEMENT (or any physician who treats patients with pain).
Financial Support...None.
Meets Special CME Requirements in....California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia.

Recognizing and Managing Opioid Misuse will help you to:
Utilize appropriate long-term opioid treatment; diagnose and manage substance abuse disorders; and safeguard your practice from drug abuse and diversion.

Key Issues Facing Psychiatry: What’s New, Important and Changing
(Sponsored Link)
This meeting will be presented live online on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST and Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST and then available on demand through March 29, 2013.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...9.0.
Awarded by....Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Cost...........Free.
Instruction Type...Streaming Video Lectures.
Target Audiences...The summit is planned to meet the continuing medical education needs of psychiatrists, psychopharmacologists, genetic counselors, psychiatric social workers, psychologists, and other healthcare professionals involved in caring for mental health patients.
Educational material will be updated...March 29, 2012.
Financial Support...Otsuka. 
Expiration of CME credit...March 29, 2013.

Key Issues Facing Psychiatry: What’s New, Important and Changing will be presented live online on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST and Thursday, March 29, 2012, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST and then available on demand through March 29, 2013..
Topics include: 
• Understanding DSM-5 
• Managing Personality Disorder in Medical Settings 
• Deciphering Bipolar Disease and Its Mimics 
• Incorporating the Implications of Genetics in Psychiatry 
• Evolving Neurobiology of Schizophrenia
• Appreciating the Complex Set of Conditions Involved in the Autism Spectrum 
• Understanding Depression as a Neuro-Inflammatory Condition 
• Comprehending Dementia Through Neuro-Imaging 
• Evaluating New Molecules and Therapies in Psychopharmacology
After participating in Key Issues Facing Psychiatry, you will be able to:
• Describe significant changes to practice based on an understanding of the DSM-5.
• Better identify a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
• Explain the role of genetics in mental health.
• Discuss the implications of mental health conditions on an understanding of genetics.
• Evaluate the impact of personality disorder in medical management.
• Apply improved skills in managing adolescent addictions.
• Implement a coherent approach to psychiatric diagnosis.
• Recognize the neurobiology of schizophrenia in patient evaluation.
• Incorporate the complex set of conditions involved in autism in practice.
• Better manage chronic pain.
• Demonstrate an appreciation for the linkages between pain and depression.
• Display an understanding of depression as a neuro-inflammatory condition.
• Recognize the role of neuro-imaging in dementia.
• Choose among appropriate new psychopharmacologic therapies.

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Free CME Addiction Medicine. Many CME activities listed below offer 
Free Addiction Medicine CME. 
Look for "Cost...Free" on the left side of each entry.  

Free CME Addiction Medicine. Many CME activities listed below offer 
Free Addiction Medicine CME. 
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American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) Web-Based Training- Buprenorphine
Last visited....2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours....9.0.
Awarded by....American Academy of Family Physicians.
Cost for Credit....AAAP Members: $99; Non-members: $171.
Instruction Type....Slide-Video Lecture.
Target Audience....ADDICTION (and other physicians who treat patients with substance abuse problems).
Educational material last updated....2010.
Financial Support...None Stated

This online course provides information regarding the use of buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid addiction. It reviews legislation regarding office-based opioid-addiction treatment, pharmacology, safety and effectiveness, patient assessment and selection, clinical management, special treatment populations, dosing, urine testing, and patient confidentiality. It meets the 8-hour training requirement specified in the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 for physicians to qualify for prescribing and dispensing buprenorphine in their offices for the treatment of opioid dependence.

Ask and Act Webcasts (Tobacco Cessation)
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...8.0.
Awarded by....AAFP.
Cost..........Free.
Instruct. Type...Slide-Video Lectures.
Target Audience....FP, General Interest.
Educational material last updated...2007.
Financial support...Various commercial supporters.

A set of four activities helping you to develop new skills and practice strategies that will help you help your patients live tobacco-free lives. Each offers 2.0 credits: Conduct and Get Paid for Tobacco Cessation Group Visits; Beyond the Guidelines: Advances in Tobacco Cessation Treatment and Payment; Become a Tobacco Aware Practice: Using an Organizational and Team-based Approach ; and Treating Tobacco Dependence.

BupPractice.com - Buprenorphine (Suboxone) Training and Practice Tools
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours and Cost....Two courses:
ASAM DATA 2000-Qualifying Buprenorphine Training, 8 hours, $175.
Post-Training Buprenorphine Cases, 4 hours, $80.
Awarded by....Clinical Tools, Inc.
Instruction Type...Case-Based Interactive.
Target Audiences...General Interest, PSYCH, PAIN MANAGEMENT.
Educational material last updated....2010.
Financial support...National Institute on Drug Abuse.

"The Buprenorphine Training Program (first course) fulfills the physician-training requirements of the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000 (DATA 2000). According to DATA 2000 requirements, physicians must complete 8 hours of education, such as this program provides, if they wish to become eligible to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid dependence. Upon the successful completion of the training, and once they have met other requirements, physicians can submit a “notification of intent” to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to become eligible to prescribe buprenorphine." The second course, Post-Training Buprenorphine Cases, gives additional training.

CECentral.com Addiction Medicine
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...8 activities offering 0.25 to 1.75 hours (Total of 6.25 hours)
Awarded by....University of Kentucky.
Cost....Free.
Instruction Type...Slide-Video Lecture
Target Audiences...ADDICTION (and other physicians who treat patients with substance abuse problems).
Educational material last updated....2011.
Financial support...National Institute on Drug Abuse.

All activities concern the diversion and misuse of buprenorphine. The titles are: 
Speaker Panel: Audience Questions and Case Discussion of Management of Difficult Patients; Helpful Resources for Physicians Providing Office-based Treatment for Opioid Dependence; Practices to Decrease Diversion & Misuse; Buprenorphine Diversion and Misuse: Setting Limits, Treatment Contracts and the Difficult Patient; Clinically Relevant Pharmacology of Buprenorphine; and The Current Problem of Buprenorphine Diversion & Misuse.

Forensic Drug Abuse Advisor (FDAA)
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...13.0.
Awarded by...American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and the Forensic Drug Abuse Advisor.
Cost.........$197.
Instruction Type....Text-Only.
Target Audience....PATH, Substance Abuse
Educational material last updated....Monthly.
Financial Support...None Stated.

After reading and studying these articles, you should be able to: Identify the latest developments in the forensic toxicology of abused drugs; Interpret recent developments in drug-related forensic pathology; Describe new techniques and new regulations in workplace drug testing including: hair, urine, sweat, and saliva; Evaluate which products are appropriate for use in pre-employment and on-site testing; Discuss and explain the medical consequences of drug abuse; Identify and explain newly discovered problems with existing testing modalities; Explain new techniques and approaches in forensic drug testing methodology; Analyze the pitfalls, difficulties, and unique problems associated with postmortem toxicology; Define the issues associated with Doping in Sports (Drugs in Sports) including: testosterone, anabolic steroids, erythropoietin, human growth hormones, etc., and the problems of detection; and Identify and rank the current trends in drug use in various parts of the country.

ManagePainCME.org 
Last Visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by... Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit Hours... 6 activities offering a total of 1.5 hours.
Awarded by...The France Foundation.
Cost….Free.
Instruction Type…Text-Only, Slide-Only, Podcast, Case-Based-Interactive, Point of Care.
Target Audiences… PAIN MANAGEMENT (and other physicians who treat acute and chronic pain).
Educational material last updated….2011.
Financial Support…King Pharmaceuticals.

ManagePainCME.org offers educational opportunities in pain management in the acute and chronic settings.
Peer-to-Peer Dialogues: 6 audio-only discussions between experts (0.25 hour each):
• What are the differences between acute and chronic pain, and how does the former lead to the latter?
• Describe the pharmacologic management of chronic pain.
• What is meant by abuse, misuse, and diversion of opioids and what are the risk factors for these behaviors?
• What are the tools available for risk assessment when evaluating and monitoring patients with chronic pain?
• What is the role of urine drug testing in management of patients with chronic pain?

University of Washington CME: Online Courses
Last visited...2/2012.
Reviewed by...Bernard Sklar, MD.
Credit hours...3.0.
Awarded by... University of Washington School of Medicine.
Cost... $45.
Instruction Type... Interactive text and video.
Target Audiences...PAIN MANAGEMENT and other physicians who treat pain.
Education material last updated... 5/09
Financial Support... Ortho-McNeil Janssen.

A single course is titled COPE: Collaborative Opioid Prescribing Education. It offers physicians tools for collaborative goal-setting at the outset of opioid treatment.