AI: Addiction Psychiatry

0 credits · School of Medicine

Opioids, alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use disorders are extremely common in primary care and across a broad range of medical specialties. These conditions lead to increased medical and psychiatric co-morbidity and predispose sufferers to physical and emotional trauma, overdose death, infectious diseases, cancer, and cirrhosis. The management of common medical and surgical conditions is frequently complicated by substance use disorders. The mission of this AI in substance use disorders is to help provide future physicians with the fundamental clinical skills necessary to identify, diagnose, manage, and make appropriate treatment referrals for patients with substance use disorders. [0]