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Stimulant Use Disorder: Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Primary Care Provider

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Published Date: 10/10/2024

Expiration Date: 05/25/2026

CE Credit: CME:1CNE: 1

Description

This one-hour presentation will distinguish stimulant misuse from stimulant use disorder, including a detailed description of the signs and symptoms of stimulant intoxication and withdrawal. Participants will gain an understanding of harm reduction and outpatient clinical management strategies for the treatment of stimulant use disorder among adults.

Presenter(s)

Timothy J. Wiegand,MD, FACMT, FAACT, DFASAM

Tim Wiegand is the Director of Toxicology and of the Toxicology & Addiction Consult Service at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York and he is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, Rochester New York. I also serve as adjunct faculty and consultant toxicologist for the SUNY Upstate Poison Center and SUNY Upstate Medical Toxicology Fellowship Training Program. In addition to these positions I am the Medical Director for Huther Doyle (a New York OASAS-certified outpatient substance use disorder treatment program) and I serve as expert consultant related to intoxication, impairment, drug testing interpretation and on standards of practice in addiction medicine and for the treatment of intoxication and withdrawal. For my Medical Toxicology training I completed a combined fellowship at the University of California San Francisco in Medical Toxicology & Clinical

Pharmacology and I have since become boarded through the practice pathway in Addiction Medicine through both ABAM and ABPM. Prior to fellowship I completed a categorical Internal Medicine residency training program at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Medical School at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Dentistry, Madison, Wisconsin.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe symptoms of stimulant intoxication and withdrawal.
  • Identify stimulant misuse and stimulant use disorder among the adult primary care patient population.
  • Discuss outpatient clinical management strategies for the treatment of stimulant use disorder.
  • Define a harm reduction approach to the treatment of stimulant use disorder.

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