Increase your understanding of how drugs of abuse interact with each other as well as what takes place in the brains of experimenters, abusers and addicts. Improve your ability to communicate with medical professionals and your clients.
On March 29th and 31st, 2022, Dr. Donald R. Osborne, Jr., author of the newly released book “You Can’t Fall Out of a Hole: Ripping the Band Aid off of Our Addiction Epidemic,” will be hosting a live webinar to increase your knowledge on the subject of Psychopharmacology and the Biology of Addiction.
Information that will be presented and discussion will be about the following:
| Central Nervous System | Peripheral Nervous System |
| Autonomic Nervous System | Somatic Nervous System |
| Sympathetic Nervous System | Parasympathetic Nervous System |
| How the Brain Works | Tolerance and Cross-Tolerance |
| Rebound / Withdrawal | Drug Half Life / five to eliminate |
| THIQ in Alcohol Metabolism | Dopamine Depletion by Cocaine |
| Determining BAC by number of drinks consumed |
The following drugs/drug classes will be examined:
| Opioids | Alcohol |
| Sedative-Hypnotics | Cannabis Sativa |
| Cocaine | Sympathomimetics |
| Inhalants | Hallucinogens |
| Club Drugs | Caffeine |
| Nicotine |
For each of the drugs/drug classes, the following information will be provided and discussed
- Examples
- Route of Administration
- Absorption
- Distribution
- Effects
- Metabolic Half-Life
- Elimination
- Rebound/Withdrawal
The webinar will be live from on March 29th, 9:30-1pm ET, and March 31st, 1:30-5pm ET. The webinar will be available on-demand afterwards.
To register, click the date you are interested in below: