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Innovation Theater: Alkermes	
Innovation Theaters are informational sessions
designed to complement your educational experience by further enhancing your knowledge
and confidence of disease-states or products.
No CME or CE credits are offered at these
programs.

2:45 PM-3:45 PM
4 concurrent sessions
core clinical

Insurance Client Advocacy:
Utilization Review Skills and
Strategies	
Elizabeth Irias, MS, LMFT
This engaging presentation provides critical
guidance about improving utilization review
outcomes in an ethically and legally sound manner. Many clinicians receive little training about
clinical documentation during their masters
and doctoral programs, and few understand the
intricacies of medical necessity. Both clinical
documentation and medical necessity have a significant impact on utilization review outcomes,
and providers who are unfamiliar with the managed care system are at a distinct disadvantage.
In this session, attendees will learn about medical
necessity, important laws and standards of care
that affect clinical documentation and managed
care processes, and easy-to-integrate strategies
to better advocate for clients with their insurance
companies, thereby improving client care.

medication-assisted treatment

How Providers' and Patients'
Appraisals of Marijuana Use
During Medication-Assisted
Treatment Influence Behaviors,
Clinical Care, and Treatment
Outcomes		
Heath Myers, LCSW
Given recent rapid shifts in social opinions,
clinical practice, and legal status associated
with marijuana, our experience has been that
physicians/providers often feel overwhelmed,
under-informed, and/or uncertain about how or
why to address marijuana use among individuals
engaged in medication-assisted treatment. In
turn, physicians/providers are often reluctant
to proactively discuss the role, meaning, and
risks/benefits of marijuana use in patients' lives.
In addition, there is limited research on the
nature and intensity of patient or provider beliefs
about marijuana use during medication-assisted
treatment or the degree to which these beliefs
appear to impact behaviors and clinical care.

marketing

The Need for Ethical Sales and
Marketing in Substance Use 		
Disorder Treatment
Melissa Fors, MBA
Bob Poznanovich
The substance use disorder treatment industry is
known for "bad actors" with poor quality, unethical treatment practices, and predatory sales and
marketing tactics. This is changing with a focus
on industry reform in many states and at the federal level. Ethical sales and marketing tactics support patients receiving the quality treatment that
they need and deserve. This session provides an
overview of the ethical challenges in our industry
and provides actionable strategies and tactics for
proactively marketing your treatment facility.

Sponsored Session: PursueCare	
Nicholas Mercadante, Esq
Steven Powell, MD, MPH, CPE, FAPA

4:00 PM-5:00 PM
From Privilege to Prison,
to the Long Way Home
Cameron Douglas
Drawing from his new best-seller, Long Way
Home, Michael Douglas's son Cameron Douglas
tells his gripping personal story of addiction,
recovery, and the power of family. With honesty
and candor, he provides an unflinching account
of his dangerous descent into years of addiction-and his highly inspiring rise to recovery.
Contrasting a storied childhood as a member
of Hollywood royalty to hitting rock bottom as
a heroin addict, Cameron shares his struggle to
return to society and family after many years of
drug abuse and almost 8 years in federal prison.

Attend our ethics-focused
sessions and earn up to 6 ethics
hours. Topics include:
›W
 ellness, Boundaries, and Ethics for
Professionals: "Know Thyself" Before
Burnout, Suspension, and Revoked
Certification/License

DAY 2 Friday, July 31

DAY 1 Thursday, July 30

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

9:00 AM-10:00 AM
4 concurrent sessions
core clinical

The Strength and Spirit of
the LGBTQ+ Communities:
How Our History Impacts
Treatment Today	
Philip McCabe, CSW, CAS, DRCC
Your community is not just the streets, homes,
and buildings you live in, it's the people who
also make up the community. The LGBTQ+
community is very diversified in their history,
experience, and even identification. LGBTQ+
community-building is a counterbalance to heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia,
sexism, ageism, racism, and other oppressions
experienced by sexual minorities. Depending on
geographic location, some of these communities
experienced more opposition to their existence.
A significant component of the recovery process
is establishing a connection to others and breaking the isolation of addiction. This workshop will
include an overview of the LGBTQ+ experience,
past and present, and how everyone, LGBT
individuals and their Allies, can foster a positive
interconnection to decrease health disparities.
Presented by NALGAP-National Association of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Addiction Professionals

medication-assisted treatment

The Continuum of Care
Approach: Recovery Can
Be a Barrier to Recovery	
Brandee Izquierdo, MPA, CPRS
During this session, we will explore negative
attitudes associated with MAT and abstinence-based recovery, how those negative
attitudes can be a barrier within the continuum
of care model, and what clinicians can do to support individuals who choose abstinence-based
treatment, medication-assisted treatment, or
a combination of both to enhance positive
outcomes for individuals being served. Finally,
we will discuss tools for the clinician to overcome
this resistance and to ensure that one person's
pathway to recovery is no longer a barrier to
another's.

medication-assisted treatment

Meet Them Where They Are:
Leveraging Telemedicine for
Opioid Use Disorder
Lisa McLaughlin, MSW/MSI
Paul Leonard, MD
By leveraging telemedicine to provide evidence-based care for opioid use disorder, Workit
Health has drastically improved outcomes and
produced significant cost-savings. An analysis of
473 safety-net patients in the telemedicine medication-assisted treatment program (teleMAT)
found that this low-barrier care increased
month-over-month retention, adherence rates,
and self-reported quality of life measures. By
month 6 in the program, in which 68% of patients
remained in the program, 84% demonstrated
adherence and close to 50% were engaged in
activity outside of their provider appointments,
which includes counseling (live 1:1 & asynchronous chat), group sessions, and a CBT/DBTbased curriculum personalized to an individual's
addiction(s).
With more than a quarter of patients in rural
areas and many others in areas still without
access, telemedicine has been a powerful tool in
overcoming social/cultural and structural barriers
to care including stigma, privacy concerns,
personal preferences, lack of geographic access,
lack of reliable transportation, homelessness,
and childcare needs.

executive & leadership

Are You a Daring Leader?
Applying Brené Brown's Concepts
to Behavioral Health Executives
Maeve O'Neill, MEd, LCDC, LPC-S, CHC,
CDWF/CDTLF
This session will give participants an overview of
the courage building leadership training called
Dare to Lead. We will explore the four skill sets
that are teachable, measurable, and observable
in all leaders. This experiential workshop will cover the skills of vulnerability, living into our values,
and trusting and rising to apply to themselves
both personally and professionally. Leaders will
leave with a plan to be more courageous leaders
who are ready to do brave work, have tough
conversations, and lead with whole hearts.

›A
 n Overview of Ethics for
Substance Abuse Treatment
and the LGBTQ+ Client
›M
 ultiple Pathways to Recovery
›T
 he Conflict Between Ethical Clinical
Practice and Business Practice
› Ethics of Self-Care
›E
 thical Considerations Using the
Family-Centered System of Care
Approach in Substance Use Disorder
Treatment Settings

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