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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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Linda Clark, Barclay Damon’s Health Care Controversies Team co-leader, 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. Linda will consider how litigation against pharmaceutical manufacurers, distributors, and pharmacies as well as billions of dollars in settlements are driving solutions to save lives. She will also discuss in an interactive format the legal theories and precedents being relied on by plaintffs; 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
  • • Counselor
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Nurses
  • • Physicians
  • • Social Worker
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
  • • Psychologist
Learning Objectives

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

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

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

  • Identify at least two red flags that have proven relevant to opioid liability determinations and precedents.

  • Summarize the consequences of these legal actions and how they will fund treatment and recovery efforts.

  • Describe the expanding role of pharmacists in collaborating with mental health/recovery providers in the treatment of patients.

References

  • American Health Law Association (AHLA). (2024). Top Ten Issues in Health Law: Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Final Rule.

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

  • Healthcare Law Insights. (2024). Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Final Rule: Strengthening Access to Mental and Substance Use Disorder Healthcare Benefits.

  • LexisNexis Practical Guidance. (2024). Parity is Paramount: Understanding the New Mental Health Parity Final Regulations.

  • Levins, H. (2023). Will States and Counties Spend Their National Opioid Settlements Effectively? https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/will-states-and-counties-spend-their-national-opioid-settlements-effectively/

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

  • Weiland, N. (2023). U.S. recorded nearly 110,000 overdose deaths in 2022. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/us/politics/drug-overdose-deaths.html

  • Whaley, S., & Sharfstein, J. (2023). The Opioid Settlements-Will the First Steps Be in the Right Direction?. JAMA health forum, 4(9), e234017. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.4017

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Counselor

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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.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

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.

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

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. Professions in scope for this activity are listed below. Amedco Joint Accreditation Provider Number: 4008163. Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Social Worker

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

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 General continuing education credits. ASWB ACE Credit is not available in NY and NJ.

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.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

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.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 programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical, and Professional Development

Psychologist

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

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LEPs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0125.

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 Clark, JD

Linda is co-leader of Barclay Damon’s Health Care Controversies Team. 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.

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