Understanding Stimulants, Including Methamphetamine, Cocaine and Prescription Stimulants

The new addictions course available on-line at PAHA is “Understanding Stimulants, Including Methamphetamine, Cocaine and Prescription Stimulants”. This is an 6-hour course that is available at our on-line training center anytime at http://substanceabusecounselortraining.com which covers the topic of Understanding Stimulants, Including Methamphetamine, Cocaine and Prescription Stimulants with a specific substance abuse focus for Nurses, Counselors, and other Health Professionals.

Here are the topics covered in this course:

1. Stimulant Addiction, Tolerance, Dependence & Toxicity
2. Neurobiological mechanism
3. Clinical Aspects of Stimulant Use
4. Cocaine
5. Cocaine Pharmacological Effects
6. Cocaine’s Health Effects
7. Amphetamine-type Stimulants (ATS)
8. Amphetamine-type Stimulants (ATS) Pharmacological Effects
9. Amphetamine-type Stimulants (ATS) Synthetic CNS Stimulants
10. ATS Licit and Illicit Forms
11. Prescription Stimulant Pharmacological Effects
12. Prescription Stimulant Availability
13. Methamphetamine
14. Acute Physiological Effects & Psychiatric effects of methamphetamine abuse
15. Methamphetamine use and Pregnancy
16. Methamphetamine Withdrawal
17. Methamphetamine and Dopamine
18. Medications used to treat Stimulant Use Disorders
19. Ecstasy-type Stimulants
20. Deadly Effects of Ecstasy

To enroll in this course on-line please visit http://substanceabusecounselortraining.com. For more information about our face-to-face courses, please see our schedule at: https://addictionsprofessional.com/csac-certification/our-schedule