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The Ongoing Opioid Crisis:

How a National Tragedy and Hollywood Awareness Made New Law, Created Treatment Resources, and Deepened the Need for Collaborative Care

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1 CE Hour
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Barclay Damon’s Health Care Controversies Team leaders, Linda Clark and Brad Gallagher, will take you through the evolution of the opioid crisis—an epidemic that resulted in over 100,000 overdose deaths in 2020 alone and that is continuing to ravage communities. The presenters will consider provide updates on the pending how litigation against pharmaceutical manufacurers, distributors, and pharmacies as well as how the billions of dollars in settlements are driving solutions to save lives. They will also discuss in an interactive format the legal theories and precedents being relied on by plaintffsthe various parties; the debates around how settlement monies should be used by local governments; and how providers are collaborating to recognize, treat, and improve patient heatlh outcomes.

Target Audience
  • Counselors
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Psychologists
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain how the opioid crisis accelerated and led to state action to recoup costs from a legal perspective.

  • Identify 2 or more the legal theories that have been used to support claims against supply chain participants.

  • Identify 2 or more red flags that have proven relevant to opioid liability determinations and precedents.

  • Describe 3 or more consequences of the legal action related to the opioid crisis and explain how they will fund treatment and recovery efforts.

  • Explain 2 ways pharmacists can collaborate with mental health/recovery providers in the treatment of patients.

References

  • National Alliance of Mental Illness Survey, 2021 (https://www.nami.org/Press-Media/Survey-Reports)

  • American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Pharmacy Forecast 2023 (https://academic.oup.com/ajhp/article/80/2/10/6854799)

  • New York Times, “U.S. Recorded Nearly 110,000 Overdose Deaths in 2022,” 2023

Introductory
General
Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Addiction Counselors

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.

 

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

 

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Physicians


In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.Health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.

 

Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses


In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and TPN.Health. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Amedco Joint Accreditation #4008163.

 

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 1 ANCC contact hours.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by Exchange Events. There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
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Linda Clarke, J.D.

Linda is Barclay Damon’s Health Care Controversies Team leader. A nationally recognized litigator and health care lawyer with over 30 years of experience, she serves as lead counsel as well as national, regional, and local counsel in regulatory and compliance matters and the prosecution and defense of claims brought in state and federal courts on behalf of large groups of businesses and institutional clients in various settings and venues. Linda is a trusted advisor to health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, and pharmacies nationwide in resolving high-stakes disputes and government investigations and regulatory proceedings. She represents health care professionals and entities in all types of civil, criminal, and administrative proceedings, hearings, and appeals before various federal and state regulatory agencies, including the NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG), the NYS Attorney General’s Office (OAG), the NYS Department of Health (DOH), and their federal counterparts, including the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), among others. In addition to her role at Barclay Damon, for over 20 years, Linda served as court-appointed defense liaison counsel for three jurisdictions in New York State in asbestos litigation, working with hundreds of defense firms and the judiciary in the administration of these cases. She currently serves as a court appointee to several high-profile administrative committees for the New York State and federal court systems. Linda also serves as a judicial hearing officer, hearing cases involving alleged judicial misconduct by the judiciary.

Brad Gallagher, J.D.

Brad is co-leader of Barclay Damon’s Health Care Controversies Team. He concentrates his national practice on providing legal services to clients in the pharmaceutical industry, including independent retail, chain, specialty, infusion and compounding pharmacies, as well as health care systems. Brad also represents wholesalers, manufacturers, technology companies, and others with legal, regulatory, and compliance issues in the pharmacy space. He represents other health care providers, including physicians, laboratories, and durable medical equipment (DME) providers, with issues relating to network participation and reimbursement issues. Brad counsels clients nationwide on issues with health plans, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and government entities, such as credentialing and enrollment, audits and investigations, network terminations, and reimbursement disputes. Specifically, Brad has assisted providers in overturning enrollment denials and with the recovery of millions of dollars for providers following challenges to audit findings or improper reimbursements. Brad also counsels clients in matters pertaining to contract management, best practices, and other business-related issues, with a focus on those entities operating in the pharmaceutical industry. For example, Brad assists clients in understanding and evaluating risks with data privacy and security, marketing and payment models, and interplay with other agreements entered by the client. Brad represents entities in pharmacy- and other health care- related transactions, including those involving private and chain sales or private equity. Brad also assists entities with corporate.

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