WEBINAR
The ASAM Criteria Unplugged and Other Tales from the Field, Episode 6: David Gastfriend, MD
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In this episode of The ASAM Criteria Unplugged, we interview Dr. David Gastfriend on some of the major advances in the new ASAM Criteria 4th Edition, and the plans for updating the associated ASAM Criteria toolkit. This includes the ASAM Criteria paper Assessment Guide, the ASAM CONTINUUM software and the ASAM CO-Triage software. Dr. Gastfriend will also talk about the recent ASAM/AAAP Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Stimulant Use Disorders. This volume, for the first time, has identified Contingency Management (CM) as the standard of care for Stimulant Use Disorder. But CM is largely inaccessible to patients nationwide -- in the midst of a national stimulant crisis. So, this discussion will examine new approaches to longstanding obstacles that can now make CM feasible, manageable, easily accountable, sustainably fundable, and completely safe from regulatory investigation and legal sanctions. The emphasis will be on practical solutions that can advance access to this standard of care and boost the quality of care and treatment outcomes.
| April 25, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. PST/2:00 p.m. EST | |
| Dr. Gastfriend is an addiction psychiatrist. At Harvard Medical School, he directed addiction research at Massachusetts General Hospital and was an investigator in the NIDA Cocaine Collaborative Study, NIAAA’s COMBINE Study and NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network. As Vice President at Alkermes, Inc., he directed scientific publications on Vivitrol in clinical, criminal justice and health economics research. His research led most states to endorse the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria. His 150 scientific publications include the books The ASAM Criteria and Addiction Treatment Matching. His ASAM CONTINUUM – The ASAM Criteria Decision Engine® and ASAM’s CO-Triage® tools are being adopted nationwide. In 2016, he co-founded DynamiCare Health, a nationally-scalable technology for Contingency Management and predictive analytics, winning awards from Harvard Business School, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Governor of Ohio, and the New York Times. He has consulted to governments in Belgium, China, Iceland, Israel, Norway, Russia and the U.S. |
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| Note: no CEUs are offered for this webinar. |
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