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AOD - Alcohol, Medication & Other Drugs
Abuse and Misuse Among Older Adults
The American Society on Aging, under contract to the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, offers free training and technical assistance on abuse and misuse of Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) for providers in nonprofit and governmental agencies in California to help them better serve their older clients.
Use this website to find resources, access training opportunities, and ask for specific expert
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Patrick Arbore |
New Web Seminar Just Added!
Three web seminars (pre-recorded) are now available, featuring Patrick Arbore, Director and Co-founder of the Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and Grief-Related Services (CESP). These web seminars, on the topics of Alcohol and Aging: Obstacles to Identification, Communication Skills to Create Conversations with Older Adults Who May be Abusing/Misusing Substances, and (NEW) The Deadly Triangle: The Relationship between Depression, Alcoholism, Suicide and Older Adults are sponsored by the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
ASA offers free training and technical assistance on abuse and misuse of Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) for providers in nonprofit and governmental agencies in California to help them better serve their older clients. These are the first in the web seminar series, which will include six more web seminars on similar topics this year.
- Acamprosate: A New Medication for Alcohol Use Disorders:
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's Knowledge Application Program (CSAT KAP) is pleased to offer its first online e-learning course, Acamprosate: A New Medication for Alcohol Use Disorders. The course provides information about the use, side effects, and contraindications of acamprosate; information to discuss with clients; and a comparison of medications used to treat alcohol use disorders.
Access e-Learning Course— Acamprosate: A New Medication for Alcohol Use Disorders
- Online Videos Train Clinicians to Help Patients Who Drink Too Much:
A new interactive video training program for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), demonstrates quick and effective strategies for screening patients for heavy drinking and helping them to cut down or quit.
"The video scenarios demonstrate evidence-based techniques for assessing and managing at-risk drinking and alcohol use disorders," says NIAAA Director, Ting-Kai Li, M.D. "We want to make these techniques widely available to clinicians so that more people with alcohol use problems will get the help they need."
Called "Video Cases: Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much," the program is available online at www.niaaa.nih.gov/guide.
- Updated State Alcohol Policy Information:
The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS), a project by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, announces its latest update of state-by-state alcohol policies.
APIS is an online resource that provides detailed information on selected alcohol-related policies across the United States. The January 1, 2007 update, which covers the period 1/2/2006 through 1/1/2007, includes all 36 of the APIS "policy topics.
Visit the APIS website to obtain details on these important policy developments and to review other changes in alcohol policy across the country.
- Evidence-Based Practices, Substance Abuse and Older Adults:
Click here to view selected presentations by expert faculty.
 The American Society on Aging is pleased to offer FREE training and technical assistance on older adult problem gambling. For more information, please visit http://www.asaging.org/pg.
 The American Society on Aging and the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists Foundation have collaborated on the development of Adult Meducation: Improving Medication Adherence in Older Adults, a web-based program to educate ASA and ASCP. Please visit http://www.adultmeducation.com/index.html for more information.
"We are only beginning to realize the pervasiveness of substance abuse among older adults."
-Charles G. Curie, M.A., A.C.S.W., Administrator,
U.S Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2005)
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