Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.
Audio-Digest Psychiatry is specifically designed to provide the participant with useful and up-to-date information on accurate diagnosis and appropriate management in all types of psychiatric disorders, including, but not limited to:
Anxiety disorders
Dementia, delirium, amnesia, and other cognitive disorders
Geriatric psychiatry
Mental disorders in childhood and adolescence
Mood disorders
Multiaxial illnesses
Personality disorders
Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Sexual disorders and paraphilias
Sleep disorders
Substance-related disorders
The goal of this program is to improve the recognition and treatment of substance abuse and dependence. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Identify patients at risk for dependence on prescription opioids, heroin, and alcohol.
2: Describe treatment strategies for opioid dependence.
3: Compare and contrast traditional and newer treatment strategies for alcohol abuse and dependence.
4: Explain some of the mechanisms, such as environmental cues, that contribute to nicotine addiction.
5: Discuss pharmacotherapy for nicotine addiction.