Without Heart, It’s Just Another Medicine

In New Mexico and across the United States calls for more than just preventing withdrawal—even more so it’s about promoting recovery. This didactic and experiential seminar will describe Evidence-based Models for recognizing and treating Opioid Use Disorders in an integrated, holistic way by providing Trauma Informed, Recovery Oriented Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) which comports to the current federal and ASAM guidelines for MAT treatment by blending behavioral health clinical and recovery-oriented approaches with medical and pharmacological interventions. The presentation will describe how trauma informed care can and should be a cornerstone of MAT and how to develop effective multi- disciplinary treatment and recovery teams based on trauma informed and recovery-oriented principles.

As a clinic based, physician led intervention, the model provides a more cost effective “apples to apples” comparison for parity requirements than many other SUD treatment modalities that has proven attractive to third party payers.