NCFADS Summer School July 3.August 4th. Concurrent Plenaries.C4. 01. The Opiate Epidemic How Did We Get in this Mess BTW, Its Your Job to Clean it Up Tuesday Afternoon 1 4.Presenter Robert Martin, JDDescription The presenter will discuss changes in drug company marketing, pain management guidelines and cultural expectations of people to live pain free that have led to over prescribing and drug culture changes.The 2. 01. 6 CDC guidelines for prescribing pain medications will be reviewed.The changes in importation of heroin and distribution will be explained.Distribution and the pizza business model used by the Mexican cartels in many areas will be explained.North Carolina Licensed Professional Counselors Act 2014' title='North Carolina Licensed Professional Counselors Act 2014' />The presenter will review techniques for community collaboration and methods different groups have facilitated for prevention, treatment and law enforcement to address this growing epidemic.Participants will be educated on new designer opiates and opiate substitute drugs of abuse.Sponsored by REM AssociatesC4.Academic Medicine The Heart of UNC Health Care The University of North Carolina Health Care System 2014 ANNUAL REPORT.How to Get Away with Unethical Behavior Research on Decision Making Tuesday Afternoon 1 4.Presenter Sean Pumphrey, MSW, LCSWDescription Most presentations and talks on ethics delineate what the Code of Ethics consist of and present case histories of what occurred in unethical behavior.This presentation utilizes a dynamic, research informed format which may assist students, professionals, and clients to become more self aware therefore, prevent or overcome ethical breaches.There are fascinating reasons why ethics are compromised and include but not limited self attribution, emotional states, creativity, altruistic beginnings, ego depletion, and moral erosion.This workshop will assist in preventing unethical breaches include but are not limited to monitoring, honor pledge, slow ethical consideration, moral saliency, and changing frame of reference.An additional. C4.Shame The Enemy Of Recovery Tuesday Afternoon 1 4.Presenter Jamie Norton, LICDC CSDescription All of us want to be loved but most of us are terrified to be known.The guilt and resulting shame inherent in addiction and early recovery makes us want to hide.Shame is a sense of being a flawed and helpless failure and leaves us with a fear of being exposed.It leaves us feeling, separated and alienated from others and prevents us from being honest and reaching out for the help essential to maintaining recovery.This session will explore the central nature of shame, the various sources of shame and its effect in isolating us from our true self and from each other.Strategies for identifying, and resolving guilt and shame in clients will be offered.The session will utilize both didactic and experiential technics to help participants Define shame and be able to discuss the differences between shame and guilt.Identify the types and origins of shame.Describe common responses to shame and their impact on intimate relationships.Identify the barriers to recovery inherent in unresolved shame issues.Utilize strategies and technics for helping clients resolve shame and guilt in recovery.C4. 04. Current Research on the Addicted Brain Tuesday Afternoon 1 4.Presenter John Femino, MD Darryl Inaba, Pharm.D., CATC V, CADC IIIDescription Breakthroughs in understanding the pharmacology, brain processes, and impact of addiction on individuals vulnerable to develop Substance Related Addictive Disorders led to passage of the Addiction Equity Act in 2.Continued investigations find anomalies in those who are predisposed to or who have developed substance use andor behavioral compulsivity disorders.Expansion of brain imaging techniques and other research tools validate addiction and even its recrudescence relapse episodes to be neurobiological variances in the neuro cellular, neuro chemical, and neuro functioning of those who experience addiction.The brain anomalies associated with addictive disorders provide an understanding for why a diverse variety of drugs and behavioral compulsions can develop into addiction in specific individuals.These also help to explain why some are more likely than others to relapse after treatment for their condition.This session will explore the pharmacology, brain anomalies, and impact that addiction has on the brain.How this impacts the treatment and recovery process of Substance Related and Addictive Disorders will be discussed.It will provide firm validation that addiction is not a moral dysfunction or a will power issue but an actual medical and biological anomaly of the most important organ to human existence, the brain.The presentation is hoped to provide information that will help inspire development of tools to increase better clinical management of addictive disorders so as to promote long term sobriety recovery that can help prevent further catastrophic consequences that can result from this chronic persistent medical disorder.Sponsored by Dominion DiagnosticsC4.Biofeedback Applications for Substance Abuse Treatment Tuesday Afternoon 1 4.Presenter Tami Fragedakis, Ph.DDescription This presentation will provide participants with the ability to Demonstrate a basic understanding of the central autonomic network in relation to health.Demonstrate ways to measure the central autonomic nervous system.Explore the various components of biofeedback and neurofeedback and how they relate to functioning of the central autonomic network.Identify ways why changes in the central autonomic network are related to health and disease.Define how biofeedback and neurofeedback modalities can help alleviate symptoms of substance abuse disorders.Identify ways of enabling individuals to develop healthy coping outlets through effective biofeedback training.C4. 06. Viewing Relapse as an Opportunity for Growth Tuesday Afternoon 1 4.Presenter Oliver J.Johnson, Ph. D., LCSW, LCAS, CCSDescription Relapse is more than just using alcohol or drugs.It is the progressive process of becoming so dysfunctional in recovery that self medication with alcohol or drugs seems like a reasonable choice.In this session, participants will be introduced to the benefits of viewing relapse not as a catastrophe, but as a significant and potentially life altering opportunity for growth.The following components of Terry Gorskis evidence based model will shared The Relapse Process.Step 1 Getting Stuck in Recovery.Step 2 Denying That Were Stuck.Step 3 Using Other Compulsions.Step 4 Experiencing A Trigger Event.Step 5 Becoming Dysfunctional on the Inside.Step 6 Becoming Dysfunctional on The Outside.Step 7 Losing Control.Step 8 Using Addictive Thinking.Step 9 Going Back to Addictive People, Places, and Things.Step 1. 0 Using Addictive Substances Step 1.Losing Control Over Use.By the end of this session, participants will be able to Describe process of addiction and relapse from socio cultural perspectives.Define and describe key phases of the relapse process.Define and describe the benefits of relapse as a substantive opportunity for growth.Plenary Sessions.D1. 00. Hope Dies Last Monday, 1.Presenter Geri Miller, Ph.D, LP, LCAS, LPCDescription This plenary session will provide an overview of the important impact of hope, resilience, and self care on addiction counselors and their clients.Currently there are many stressors placed on both counselors and clients as they address the disease of addiction in counseling.Counselors need to draw on their sources of hope and resilience as well as practice self care in order to best serve the welfare of the client during these stressful times.Those counselors who practice self care are able to pass on their sense of hope and their capacity for resilience to their clients. Casting Crowns Life Song Mp3 Download . Both general and specific approaches to developing and maintaining hope and resilience through the practice of self care are provided in this presentation.D2. 00. Resource Panel Monday, 2 0.Presenters Jane Albers, LCSW, LCAS, CCS, President, NCFADS additional panel presenters TBADescription Information, resources and awareness of addictions and substance use disorders programs, both private and public sector, will be provided in this session designed to assist both new and seasoned practitioners in determining options and available treatment and related resources in NC and beyond.D3. 00. Solutions to Addiction The Cause, the Policies and the Effect Monday, 3 3.Presenter John Shinholser Carol Mc.
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