Acute Pain Management Following Surgery

This webinar presentation outlines strategies to optimize pain control and reduce opioid overprescribing in the post-operative period.

Identifying SUD Bias and Addressing Stigma in the Clinical Setting

This presentation outlines practical approaches to identifying personal bias and addressing stigma in the clinical care setting.

Telehealth for Substance Use Disorders and Considerations for Rural Regions

This presentation focuses on optimizing patient and clinician experiences with different telehealth platforms, practical guidelines for providing substance use treatment virtually in rural communities, and regulatory considerations.

Peer Recovery as an Evidence-Based Practice: From Science to Impact

The presentation focuses on how peer recovery models of care can help rural recovery communities from three perspectives. Dr. Kelly explains his research from the Recovery Research Institute on peer recovery centers, and reviews the evidence behind how these centers support and encourage long-term recovery. Dr. Depman addresses strategies, benefits, and challenges incorporating peer recovery models of care into that setting for OUD and AUD, based on his experience utilizing peer recovery coaches in the Emergency Department (ED) at Central Vermont Medical Center, a community hospital serving a rural population. Liza Ryan–a certified peer recovery coach in rural Lamoille County, VT, and a person in recovery for over 7 years–explains how her work is affected by serving a rural community.

Social Determinants of Mental Health and Substance Use

This presentation introduces key concepts related to the social and structural determinants of health (SDOH), and how they apply to substance use disorders, with a particular focus on implications for rural communities.

Pregnancy, Parenting, And Substance Use: Stigma, Fear and a Call for Improved Messaging to our Families

This presentation covers unique barriers that people with opioid use disorder face when pregnant and parenting.

Growing a Competent Workforce in a Rural State: The University of Kentucky Bell Addiction Medicine Scholar Program

This presentation explores the importance of treatment and medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) along the continuum of care in rural communities. It also outlines a training program taking place at University of Kentucky (UK) for physicians who are in a position to treat patients and educate future physicians.

Recommendations for Culturally Recentering Reinforcement-Based Substance Use Disorder Interventions in Collaboration with Rural Tribal Communities

This webinar presentation covers strategies providers may use to culturally adapt and implement contingency management among rural American Indian and Alaska Native communities, as a treatment approach offering incentives for healthy progress in people with substance use disorder (SUD).

Three years of the COVID-19 Pandemic: What we’ve learned, and how it can make us better at treating rural patients with SUD

This presentation explores lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as they relate to rural populations with substance use disorder (SUD), including discussion of the ways the pandemic affected barriers to SUD treatment and social coping strategies, as well as approaches toward addressing vaccine hesitance, and strategies for providing remote/virtual outreach to rural patients with SUD.

Assessment of Substance Use Disorder Stigma and Strategies for Addressing Stigma in Rural Areas

This presentation shares results from the National Report on Rural Substance Use Disorder Stigma and Treatment Needs — a collaborative nationwide effort conducted by all three Rural Centers of Excellence. Representatives from each RCOE discuss strategies for addressing stigma in rural areas.