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Do You Want Your Practice to Include

Treating Patients With OUD?

PCSS's PCSS-Implementation (PCSS-I) initiative is here to help clinicians and their clinical programs navigate through the step-by-step process on how to integrate treating patients with an opioid use disorder with medications into primary care practice.

PCSS-I has clinical and implementation experts as PCSS-I Facilitators available to work with you and your team to develop strategies tailored specifically to support your needs. There is no cost to participate.

Clinical Site Characteristics

Clinical sites should be primary care or mental health programs that meet the following criteria:

Committed and motivated to provide care for patients with substance use disorders, including medications for the treatment of substance use disorders.
Able to identify at least one on-site “Champion” (i.e., leader/point person). The Champion will be the primary contact for the clinical site and will serve as the liaison with the PCSS-I External Facilitators.
Agree to convene a multi-disciplinary PCSS-I Team (Clinical: MD, NP/PA, RN, MA, behavioral health, pharmacists, administrative: receptionist, billing coordinators, CEO/CFO) to participate in planning.
Commit to participate in PCSS-I project for at least 6-months.
Commit to participate in data collection activities as part of the evaluation of PCSS-I.

For more information and to request an application to participate, email: jennifer@aaap.org.

PCSS Live Webinar

FAME Session #1: Overdose Prevention & Harm Reduction

Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm ET

Date: Monday, October 24, 2022

Sponsoring organization: American Society of Addiction Medicine

About the Webinar: This 2-hour, virtual-live session is part of the FAME 8-session series and will cover overdose prevention and harm reduction. The FAME series is a facilitated, in-depth discussion of real patient cases provided by participants with the opportunity to receive mentoring and feedback from multi-disciplinary addiction expert faculty.

[Learn more and register]

PCSS On-Demand Webinars

All PCSS webinars are recorded and are available for on demand viewing, usually within two weeks of live webinar (and often sooner). Recent webinars that are now available:

American Youth Intentional Drug-Opioid Fatal Overdose: The Magnitude of the Problem and Improved Assessment of Intentionality (American Psychiatric Association)

Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders in Rural Areas (National Council for Mental Wellbeing)

See list of all recorded webinars.

PCSS Clinical Roundtables

Upcoming PCSS Clinical Roundtables:

Stigma and Opioid Use Disorder

Oct. 14, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm*

The Neurobiology of Addiction

Oct. 19, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy

Oct. 27, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Credit Designations Available: AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, and Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit.

* All times are ET

More News

Facebook Event: The Intersection of Suicide and Substance Use

On September 15, 2022, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) co-hosted a Facebook Live event on the intersection of suicide and substance use. NIMH Director Joshua A. Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., and NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, M.D., led a discussion on common risk factors, populations at elevated risk, suicides by drug overdose, treatments, prevention, and resources for finding help. [Watch recording]

Integrating Addiction Medicine with Treatment Courts

PCSS partner organization the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has partnered with the National Association of Drug Court Professionals through an Office of National Drug Control Policy grant initiative to allow medical providers active with and new to the drug treatment court field access to training to help guide them in the successful integration of services for individuals with substance use disorders involved in the justice system.

This 6-hour course will introduce participants to the basics of addiction medicine and treatment courts. The course includes practical methods for addressing systemic challenges like reducing stigma, advocating for your patients, and creating an effective partnership between medical providers, treatment court specialists, and patients. National experts will also use case studies to teach best practices for diagnosis and treatment of patients involved in the criminal legal system. [Learn more]

Helpful Resources for Your Practice

Helping Your Patients with Alcohol-Related Problems

Additional Links for AUD Patient Care

Options for People who are Thinking About Their Drinking

Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 1H79TI081968 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.