Chinese Medicine and the Opioid Epidemic

The opioid epidemic is a crisis we haven’t seen before. The marketing of the pharmaceutical industry combined with overuse by medical doctors and patient abuse have resulted in rampant addictions, overdoses, and deaths. Chinese medicine can help play a role at many levels in helping this public health failure. This course will examine the epidemic, look at the drugs involved, addictions in general and specific to the epidemic. Most importantly, this course will discuss how to treat this epidemic in our clinics including discussing the interactions between acupuncture and opioid receptors, and helpful approaches, herbs, and acupuncture points.

This course will be presented on July 25 and November 28, 2021, from 1-3pm pst via live webinar.

Course Goals

1. Understand the scope and current state of the “Opioid Epidemic”
2. Discuss addictions in general and opioid addictions in particular
3. Understand opioids as drugs and their interactions with acupuncture and herbs
4. Apply practical approaches to dealing with patients who are struggling with opioid addiction including the use of acupuncture and herbs.

This is California Acupuncture Board (CAB) Category 1 live education course. For NCCAOM, this course is a core (AOM-CM) PDA. This course is approved by the California Acupuncture Board and NCCAOM for 2 hours of continuing education and PDAs. For further information, please contact Dr. Greg Sperber, CAB CEU Provider #1349, NCCAOM PDA Provider #166669, at DrGreg@integrativemedicinecouncil.org or (619) 881-0029.

Refund Policy: A refund request can be made up to seven days before the scheduled webinar and a full refund will be offered. Within a week of the seminar, cancellations will refund half the cost of the webinar.

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