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An osteopathic Approach to Recovery


Total Credits: 1 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s), 1 Opioid Credits

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State Associations:
MOA - Maine
Faculty:
Suzan White, DO
Duration:
1 Hour 03 Minutes
Expiration:
Access till 01/01/2025 after purchase.


Description

Session Objectives:

Dr. White will present a review of neurobiological processes associated with addiction behaviors, a treatment perspective informed by the osteopathic philosophy and case studies.

Following this lecture, participants will be better able to understand the underlying neurobiological processes associated with addiction behaviors.

Participants will be able to understand how an osteopathic approach to treatment of addiction can serve their patients.

 

The Maine Osteopathic Association is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.The Maine Osteopathic Association designates this program for a maximum of 1.0 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity. This session also qualifies for 1.0 Opioid Prescribing CME credit pursuant to licensing requirements for the Board of Licensure in Medicine in Maine and the Maine Osteopathic Board of Licensure.

This education counts towards Maine state-specific Opioid Prescribing CME licensing requirements and the new 8 hour DEA CME requirement when renewing or obtaining your DEA license. The total hours in this education is one (1) Opioid Prescribing Credit.

MOA Grievance Policy: All grievances should be initially directed in writing to the MOA Executive Director by email to info@mainedo.org who will share them with the MOA's Program Committee. Grievances will receive a response within 30 days of receipt. If you do not receive a satisfactory response, you may notify the Council on Continuing Medical Education, AOA, 142 East Ontario St., Chicago, IL 60611.

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Dr. White has been focused on the treatment of addiction in rural Vermont since 2015. She is double Board Certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. She founded the Hope and Recovery Clinic at Northwestern Medical Center where she was awarded the hospital leadership award in 2019.  In 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, she transitioned to a position as Medical Director of Health and Recovery Solutions providing Telehealth Addiction Treatment Services through Phoenix House New England. Dr. White has recently launched Tamarack Psychiatry, a direct care Integrative Psychiatry practice in Shelburne, Vermont and she is also Medical Director treating Addiction at the Howard Center’s Northwest Spoke.  Dr. White has a special interest in indigenous approaches to healing. Since 2019 she has apprenticed with Grandfather Lench Archuleta, a Yaqui elder, and over the last year she has been honored to sit in circle with Grandmother Mulara, an Australian Aboriginal Senior Law Woman.

Dr. White has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.


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