Opioid Use in Greater Hartford:

Using the Data to Get the Big Picture

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Webinar

This virtual educational activity is jointly provided by AXIS Medical Education and the Connecticut Hospital Association in collaboration with the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Target audience:  Physicians, nurses, social workers, quality professionals, risk managers, healthcare executives, and all healthcare professionals working with women and families affected by trauma and addiction.

Description: This educational activity provides an overview of recent data trends related to opioid use disorder in Connecticut, with a focus on the Greater Hartford area.  Factors contributing to the continued rise in overdose death rates in the Greater Hartford area and those related to substance use disorder will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be better able to:

• Describe the demographic and characteristics of individuals involved in drug overdose deaths in the Greater Hartford area during the most recent years.
• Discuss potential sources of quantitative and qualitative data related to the opioid epidemic.
• Explain factors related to substance use disorder, including social and economic conditions and access to care.

Your Faculty:

Mark Abraham, Executive Director, DataHaven

Mr. Abraham is the Executive Director of DataHaven, a public service non-profit organization that partners with local and state government agencies, academic and health care institutions, foundations, and community organizations to collect, share, and interpret public information about Connecticut. In his role at DataHaven, Mark has authored several dozen publications, and has established the DataHaven Community Wellbeing Survey program that has created an unprecedented source of statewide- and neighborhood-level information about public health, economic security, and other topics through live, in-depth interviews with over 35,000 randomly-selected adults between 2012 and 2021.  From 2014 to 2017, Mark served as a Fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, as part of a national cohort focused on Racial Equity. Mark has received an "Impact Award" from the Community Indicators Consortium and a national "40 under 40 in public health" award from the de Beaumont Foundation, and was elected to the Executive Committee of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (Washington, DC). Mark is a graduate of Yale University, and is pursuing graduate studies at the Yale School of Public Health.

ACCREDITED CONTINUING EDUCATION

Accreditation Statement

 In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AXIS Medical Education and the Connecticut Hospital Association. AXIS Medical Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Credit Designation for Physicians

AXIS Medical Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Credit Designation for Nursing

AXIS Medical Education designates this continuing nursing education activity for 1.0 contact hours.

Learners are advised that accredited status does not imply endorsement by the provider or ANCC of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with an activity.

Social Workers

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, AXIS Medical Education is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AXIS Medical Education maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.

Quality Professionals

This program has been approved by the National Association for Healthcare Quality for a maximum of 1 CPHQ continuing education credits for this event.

Risk Management

This meeting has been approved for a total of 1.0 contact hours of Continuing Education Credit toward fulfillment of the requirements of ASHRM designations of FASHRM (Fellow) and DFASHRM (Distinguished Fellow) and towards CPHRM renewal. 

Healthcare Executives

ACHE Qualified Education credit must be related to healthcare management (i.e., it cannot be clinical, inspirational, or specific to the sponsoring organization). It can be earned through educational programs conducted or sponsored by any organization qualified to provide education programming in healthcare management. Programs may be sponsored by ACHE, chapters, or other qualified sources, whether the programming is face-to-face or distance offerings (webinars, online seminars, self-study courses, etc.). You will receive a certificate of completion for 1.0 hour.

AXIS Contact Information

For information about the accreditation of this program please contact AXIS at info@axismeded.org.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

AXIS Medical Education requires faculty, instructors, authors, planners, directors, managers, reviewers and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose all real or apparent conflicts of interest they may have with ineligible companies. An ineligible entity is any organization whose primary business is t producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. All relevant conflicts of interest are identified and mitigated prior to initiation of the planning phase for an activity. 

AXIS has mitigated and disclosed to learners all relevant conflicts of interest disclosed by staff, planners, faculty/authors, peer reviewers, or others in control of content for this activity. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation or activity. Disclosure information for faculty, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, and/or relevant staff is provided with this activity.

The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships or relationships they have with ineligible companies of any amount during the past 24 months:

The directors, planners, managers and reviewers reported the following financial relationships they have with any ineligible company of any amount during the past 24 months:

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of patient conditions and possible contraindications or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Requirements for credit:  

• Attend/participate in the educational activity and review all course materials. 
• Complete the CE Declaration Form online by 11:59 p.m. ET August 14, 2021. If you do not enter the online portal by the above date, you will not be able to retrieve your statement of participation.
• Upon successful completion of the online form, your statement of completion will be presented to you to print.