As a result of participating in this lecture learners should have a working knowledge of the following topics, essential to competency in addiction medicine and identify areas where more study may be needed:

1. Be able to formulate an appropriate abstinence-oriented or maintenance-oriented treatment plan for a patient with a substance use disorder
2. Be able to understand the need for a spectrum of treatment for substance use disorders, from screening and brief intervention to outpatient treatment, inpatient treatment, and residential treatment and understand what the evidence base is for which interventions work for which populations/drugs of abuse.
3. Be able to discuss with patients and refer patients to self-help group resources and complementary/alternative health approaches for treatment of substance use disorders
4. Recognize the importance of the larger context and system of healthcare involved in substance use disorder treatment (including employee assistance programs, licensing boards, professional organizations, schools, governmental entities, etc.
5. Understand the role of quality management (outcome measures, satisfaction measures, performance evaluation) 
6. Be able to describe an overview of behavioral interventions, including individual psychotherapy, contingency management, milieu therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy,