ADHD and Substance Use Disorder

ADHD and Substance Use Disorder is organized by InQuill Medical Communications, LLC.

Target Audience: Primary Care Providers

Credits: 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

Description:
In this 66 minute presentation, Anthony Rostain, MD, MA clearly describes the neural correlates that ADHD patients share with proclivity toward substance abuse. He reviews the risks of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in teenagers, college students and adults, discusses appropriate medication usage and describes multiple treatment approaches (both pharmaceutical and cognitive therapies) that clinicians can use to treat both ADHD and SUD. A trusting clinician-patient relationship is an important key to treatment success.

Learning Objectives:
After completing this activity, the reader should be better able to:
• Describe the prevalence, phenomenology and impact of Substance Use Disorders in youth and adults with ADHD.
• Identify current theories regarding the links between ADHD and SUD.
• Successfully refer to key studies documenting the occurrence of stimulant misuse and abuse among college and university students.
• Describe clinical strategies for managing ADHD in the presence of SUD and for reducing the misuse / abuse of stimulant medications in at-risk patients.

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