The Drug Overdose Epidemic: The Role of the Pharmacist in Addressing Stigma

Online home study activity

Start date:  August 19, 2024

End date:   August 31, 2025

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Target Audience

Pharmacists in all practice settings and other clinical health care providers

Why you should attend

Pharmacists play a pivotal role in the care of patients with substance use disorder (SUD) and addressing stigma within the pharmacy is key to the provision of evidence-based care. This webinar provides an overview of the impact of stigma on patients with SUD, and the role of the pharmacist including practical strategies for addressing stigma and identifying and resolving pharmacists' red flags.

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Learning Objectives

  1. Define stigma and impacts on health outcomes.
  2. Describe how stigma contributes to decreased access to evidence-based care.
  3. Recognize one's own biases, including implicit biases.
  4. Identify strategies for addressing stigma in the pharmacy setting.
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Program Schedule

This activity contains a pre-test, educational material, educational video, a post-test, and a program evaluation.  Successful achievement of this activity requires achieving a score of 70% or higher on the post-test.

Requirements for Obtaining Continuing Education Credit

Participants must take the activity pre-test, but there is no minimum score required. A score of 70% or greater on the activity post-test is required to obtain continuing education credit. 

Presenters

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Karl Williams, JD, MBA, MS, BS Pharm

Professor of Pharmacy Ethics and Law

St. John Fisher University, Wegmans School of Pharmacy

  

  

Christopher Woodring, PharmD

Director, Pharmacy Operations

Trillium Health

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Program Cost

There is no fee for this program and there is no commercial support associated with this educational activity.  This program is supported by the Overdose Data to Action grant from the New York State Department of Health.

Financial Support

This program did not receive any external financial support.

Technical Requirements

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Disclosure Declaration

ACPE is committed to ensuring that accredited continuing education (1) presents learners with only accurate, balanced, and scientifically justified recommendations, and (2) protects learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. The individuals involved with the planning and presentation of this activity have the following financial relationships to disclose:

Faculty Disclosures:

Karl Williams, JD, MBA, MS, BS Pharm has nothing to disclose

Christopher Woodring, PharmD has nothing to disclose

Planning Committee Disclosures:

Lisa Skill, MS, MCHES has nothing to disclose

Clara DeSanctis, MPH has nothing to disclose

Piper Coalson, GCPH has nothing to disclose

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Accreditation Information

ACPE.

The University at Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program has been accredited as a knowledge-based activity. Credit will be uploaded to the CPE Monitor to those who complete a all components of this activity.  No partial credit is available.

ACPE # 0044-0000-24-023-H08-P, 1.5 contact hours, 0.15 CEU

Questions?

Please email pharmacyce@buffalo.edu  

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