Life-Long Learning Series provide online and face-to-face educational opportunities

For Immediate Release - Alexandria, VA

Donovan Kuehn
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Addiction services professionals can now access a new NAADAC Learning Series at low or no cost. The new series, Pharmacotherapy: Integrating New Tools into Practice, will be offered in seminars in 17 cities throughout the U.S. and online.

The seminars, featuring prominent instructors from various backgrounds, offer a six hour course for $20. To ensure that cost is not a barrier, those signing up for the courses can apply for a scholarship to cover the registration fees.

The goal of NAADAC's Life-Long Learning Series Pharmacotherapy: Integrating New Tools into Practice, is to bring together addiction services professionals from many backgrounds to discuss pharmacotherapy in a way that challenges ideas and perceptions, and to present unbiased information that can be used to assess the best possible treatment for patients.

This educational program will discuss the four facets of alcohol dependence and addiction (biological, psychological, social and spiritual), addiction as a disease and the scientific evidence to support this claim and will compare FDA-approved pharmacotherapies for alcohol dependence. Participants will be able to focus on overcoming treatment obstacles, apply strategies to match patients to the most appropriate therapy and discuss effective strategies to motivate patients in treatment.

"This is a unique opportunity to offer excellent seminars on evidence based practices and on an issue that has a significant impact on addiction services professionals," said Cynthia Moreno Tuohy, NCAC II, CCDC III, SAP, NAADAC's Executive Director.

"Addiction services professionals are in a critical position as they work with others in the addiction related health care profession. As the people who know clients best, counselors can assess treatment plans and help determine which treatment approach is most appropriate for their clients," she added.

The face-to-face seminars offer six Continuing Education (CE) credits, while the free online course offers three CE credits.

For more information on the Life-Long Learning Series, including educational objectives and registration forms, please visit www.naadac.org, call 1.800.548.0497 or sign up for the online course at http://www.extendmed.com/recoverytools.

Please look below for a full list of the 17 cities hosting the NAADAC Life-Long Learning Series Pharmacotherapy: Integrating New Tools into Practice seminars.

March 9, 2007
Baltimore, Maryland

March 26, 2007
Itasca, Ill.
Macon, Georgia

March 27, 2007
Tifton, Georgia

March 28, 2007
Morrow, Georgia

April 10, 2007
Wyomissing, Pa.

May 7, 2007
Marietta, Georgia

May 8, 2007
Morrow, Georgia

June 6, 2007
Los Angeles, Calif.

June 20, 2006
San Antonio, Texas

June 28, 2007
Orlando, Florida

July 20th, 2007
Kansas City, Mo.

July 27, 2007
Seattle, Wash.

September 6, 2007
Hyannis, Mass.

September 23, 2007
Houston, Texas

November 3, 2007
Oakland, Calif.

November 16, 2007
Albany, NY