Redesigning Specialty Substance Use Disorder Systems to Better Reach the 95% Workshop

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Through the holidays, register for Redesigning Specialty Substance Use Disorder Systems to Better Reach the 95% Workshop for just $300 (regularly $385).

Earn 3.0 AMA Category 1 Credits™ while exploring how system design, payment reform, and harm-reduction integration can transform access to care. Learn how Los Angeles County is expanding SUD services to reach patients beyond abstinence-based models — and discover practical strategies to close the treatment gap for the 95%.

 

Even in the midst of the nation’s worst overdose crisis, 95% of people with SUD are not receiving specialty treatment because they don’t recognize a need for it. The traditional specialty SUD treatment model is structured with high barriers to care that can discourage a large number of people with SUD. SUD is widely recognized as a chronic medical condition, and yet traditional treatment models continue to require individuals already be in maintenance (abstinent) and punish a return to symptoms characteristic of chronic conditions (lapsing or returning to substance use).  By using payment reform incentives focused on system design, optimizing outreach and engagement, and integrating harm reduction and treatment, this workshop will describe how Los Angeles County is broadening the reach of SUD services to support patients with non-abstinent goals of care and provide a blueprint for health systems to better reach the 95%.

Speaker(s):

  • Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, FAPA, DFASAM  -  President of the ASAM Board of Directors, Medical Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse and Prevention Bureau

  • Baldomero “Junie” Gonzalez, MPA, CADC III  -  Director of Operations, CRI-Help, Inc.

  • Vanessa Lâm, MPH MPP  -  Senior Staff Analyst, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse and Prevention Bureau

PRICE: $275 (Members) | $385 (Non-Members)

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the chronic nature of substance use disorder and apply standard chronic disease management practices to a traditionally unforgiving SUD treatment approach.
  • Identify barriers to SUD treatment that can be safely lowered to close the treatment gap and retain patients through lapses and relapses.
  • Critically evaluate current engagement practices of SUD treatment agencies and networks.
 
 
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.00 AMA Category 1
  • 3.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
11/01/2025
Course expires: 
11/01/2028
Cost:
$200.00

 

  • Brian Hurley, MD, MBA, FAPA, DFASAM  -  President of the ASAM Board of Directors, Medical Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse and Prevention Bureau

  • Baldomero “Junie” Gonzalez, MPA, CADC III  -  Director of Operations, CRI-Help, Inc.

  • Vanessa Lâm, MPH MPP  -  Senior Staff Analyst, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse and Prevention Bureau

PHYSICIANS: The California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) is accredited by the California Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  CSAM takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

CSAM designates this educational activity/enduring material for a maximum of 3 AMA/PRA Category 1 Credits™. (Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.) This credit may also be applied to the CMA Certification in Continuing Medical Education.

NON-PHYSICIANS: The California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM) provides a certificate of attendance for this online course based upon the number of hours you participated, up to maximum of 3. 

DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence, CSAM adheres to guidelines and processes to identify and mitigate relevant financial relationships for all individuals in a position to control the content of this activity. Unless otherwise noted, faculty did not have any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies, as defined by ACCME, within the past 24 months. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Available Credit

  • 3.00 AMA Category 1
  • 3.00 Attendance

Price

Cost:
$200.00
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