Viapositiva

Twitter Instagram Facebook-square Tiktok
Menu
Request Consultation

Webinar Overview

This presentation explores the research on corporations, the workforce and Opioid Use Disorder and presents a model that blends the best in traditional substance use disorder treatment with evidence-based medical and pharmacological interventions toward recovery, safety and productivity for employees and improved wellness for families. The presentation will begin framing the current epidemic in historical context, including the four waves of the opioid epidemic described in the research literature. This context helps explain why many individuals, communities and employers have been so deeply impacted by opioid use disorder. We present how individualized treatment can include a focus on recovery and social connectedness, care management, close collaboration with the Employee Assistance Professional and serve as an evidence-based nexus for therapy, pharmacology, and recovery services. Consistent with the theme, “Embracing change, inspiring hope,” we will present an overview of current evidence-based practices using medication-assisted treatment for Opioid Use Disorder and share research on why medication assisted treatment is recognized as the “gold standard”. We will include plenty of time to dialogue and discuss questions about various paradigms and recovery perspectives that may be present in the audience and hopefully expand options for substance use disorder treatment and provide strategies to heal individuals, families, and systems with a wider continuum of evidence-based services to address the Opioid crisis.

Learning Objectives
Participants will review the evolution of the current opioid epidemic and how so many people from all walks of life across our nation have come to struggle with opioids
Participants will be able to describe how opioids effect the workforce and corporations including the costs relative to productivity and safety.
Participants will be able to describe an overview of the research that sets Medication Assisted Treatment as the Gold Standard of treatment for Opioid Disorders and options for treatment including a continuum of residential, outpatient, outpatient detox and recovery services, and inpatient withdrawal management services including Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs), Office-based Opioid Treatment (OBOTs) and Telehealth-based Opioid Treatment (TBOT).
Participants will explore and question, with one of the nation's leaders on Medication Assisted Treatment, the philosophical question related to treating substance use disorder, and understand a model that blends what has been best in "abstinence-based" treatment with current medical and pharmacological evidence-based interventions.

Expected Audience

Organizational leadership, as well as EAP leadership, all EAPs, behavioral health specialists who support workers and the workforce, insurers, regulatory funders, benefits managers, and Human Resource professionals will all benefit from this presentation.
Target Audience

Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion

Leaders in the modern recovery movement need to recognize the impact of systemic racism and other oppressive forms of discrimination impacting and traumatizing people seeking behavioral health treatment and recovery. The Opioid Epidemic has disproportionately affected people of color, as well as front line workers in many sectors, especially the energy, construction, and hospitality sectors. As will be discussed in this presentation, helping create individualized recovery plans and access to quality, accessible and evidence- based treatment, includes paying attention to client’s backgrounds and special needs, especially BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and individuals from other historically marginalized communities. Supporting the workforce for safety, productivity, and the ability to obtain negative drug tests at application and during employment, while promoting employee wellness, will help expand candidate opportunities for open positions as well as keeping valued employees with the medical condition of Opioid Use and other substance use disorder in the work place.

About the Presenter

Jim Clarkson

MA, LADAC

The National Opioid Epidemic and Addressing the Problem of Pain in the Workplace: Examination of Research and Best Practices for Employees, Corporations and Families for Treatment and Recovery of Opioid Use Disorders (OUD)

Jim Clarkson serves as Senior Adviser and is on the National Advisory Board at BayMark Health Services, the largest MAT provider in North America and is a respected thought leader and national trainer in the business of behavioral health. He has led MAT programs through the merger and acquisition process while focusing on trauma informed principles as recovery and business practices. He is President of Via Positiva—a national consulting and training company and Transformativa a company that helps organizations with financial recovery and sustainability, with locations in Houston, Boston and Angel Fire, New Mexico. Via Positiva serves the nation’s largest behavioral health provider systems and insurers. He previously served as Vice President with ValueOptions, Inc.–the nation’s largest private behavioral health and wellness managed care organization. Jim has provided consultation and training nationally and internationally including for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment, the National Association for Addiction Professionals, the Association for Behavioral Health, and Wellness as well as many other state and federal agencies. He has presented national seminars and at many conferences on “How Funding Works”; “Identifying, Accessing and Sustaining Funding in Behavioral Healthcare”; “The Nuts and Bolts of Working with Managed Care”; “Payment and Quality: Developing a Recovery Oriented Systems of Care”; and “The Trauma Informed Business Executive”. In addition to his role as a managed care executive, Jim has worked and consulted with programs across the country focusing on the connection between spirituality, mental health, addiction recovery, cultural diversity, creativity and the “next generation” in client- centered therapy processes. Jim has served as President of the New Mexico Recovery Professionals Alliance, is a Certified NIATx Change Leader (Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment), a Key Supervisor for the Matrix Institute, a Certified Mental Health First Aid Trainer and for 30 years has helped Fortune 500 companies and public healthcare systems create environments for recovery and positive therapeutic outcomes.

Register Now

Get trained in the most up-to-date treatment for chronic pain — and be part of a revolutionary shift in behavioral healthcare.
Scroll to Top