Treatment Education Resources

STR/SOR Treatment Training Consultants for Tailored Trainings and Presentations

Opioid STR/SOR Consultants are available free-of-charge in each Missouri region to help your organization with additional trainings, consultation, and support. Consultants offer many services including consultation on the Medication First treatment principles, service delivery troubleshooting, and trainings for staff on implementation of medical treatment for OUD.

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Healthcare Transformation Manager

SOR 2.0 supports the Healthcare Transformation Manager at The Missouri Coalition for Community Behavioral Health (Coalition). This effort focuses on ensuring the state-funded SUD treatment system continues to transition to a modern, integrated, evidence-based reimbursement model, with fiscal alignment to clinical outcomes and quality of care.

Certified Peer Training Specialists

Beginning in March of 2018 the Missouri Credentialing Board, in partnership with DBH, started training and credentialing peers across the state with one standard curriculum providing them with the tools they need to use their personal story to provide support to all individuals in recovery from substance use, mental health, or co-occurring disorders. DBH now recognizes one peer credential—The Certified Peer Specialist. Basic training for peers has been and will continue to be free of charge.

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St Louis University Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Opioid STR/SOR is providing support for an Addiction Medicine Fellow at the St Louis University School of Medicine to promote the education of future leaders in SUD treatment.

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Webinar Trainings for Providers on OUD Treatment

Providers can utilize Show-Me ECHO to improve care for patients with chronic pain and those with Opioid Use Disorder. The University of Missouri’s Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) uses videoconferencing to connect an interdisciplinary team of specialists with primary care providers. Providers collaborate in case-based learning sessions to help primary care providers develop advanced skills and best practices to increase the availability and quality of patient care.

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UMSL-MIMH Addiction Science Trainings

The UMSL-MIMH Addiction Science team has put together a series of trainings covering harm reduction, overdose education and naloxone distribution, stimulant overamping, and fentanyl testing strips.

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Watch Past Trainings

Utilizing Nursing Care Managers to Disseminate Medication Treatement Into Practice Settings

Addressing the Opioid Overdose Crisis as a Team: an empowering physician-pharmacist conversation

The University of Missouri – St. Louis, Missouri Institute for Mental Health hosted a “fireside chat” between a physician and pharmacist to gain their perspectives on how to address the opioid overdose crisis and partner to treat Opioid Use Disorder in primary care and other settings. In this video, our guest speakers discuss how a collaboration across professions fosters a holistic approach and is necessary for effective patient care.

Guest speakers:

Kanika A. Turner, MD, MPH

Johnny Truong, PharmD

Moderator and host: Kelly N. Gable, PharmD, BCPP

Opioid Crisis Management, Parts 1, 2, & 3

A Conversation Instead of a Sledgehammer: What to Do When You Suspect Opioid Misuse

Presented by: Amy M. Tiemeier, Pharm. D., BCPS & Kelly N. Gable, Pharm D., BCPP
This pharmacy training video discusses critical information in regards to the CDC guidelines for opioid prescribing, utilization of the Pharmacist Patient Care Process for patients with an opioid prescription, key components of the St. Louis County PDMP, and ways to engage physicians and patients in discussion and education on opioids.

**This webinar has been approved for 1 hour of continuing education (CE) credit by the Missouri Board of Pharmacy.
Listeners must log in and attend the webinar online at the below link and complete the online post survey to receive CE credit.