Associate Unit Director, 5 South
Washington Heights Community Service New York State Psychiatric Institute Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-occurring substance use and psychiatric disorders can create additional assessment and treatment complications. This session will use clinical case vignettes to focus on the interactions between disorders, differential diagnoses, and management through both pharmacologic and psychosocial treatments. Participants will receive a framework to assess patients for psychiatric co-morbidities and will be able to identify the mechanism of complications based on direct or indirect drug effects.
Learning Objectives:
After this session, learners will be able to: List the common psychiatric co-morbidities of addiction and their methods for assessment and treatment.
