Withdrawal used to be simple. Now, withdrawal syndrome encompasses a broad spectrum of clinically significant pathology resulting from a long list of substances inhaled, ingested, imbibed, implanted, and injected. This update includes new techniques to identify and to manage these patients and best practices for matching withdrawal acuity with treatment protocols. Learn about a legally defensible assessment tool that will help you make sound screening and triage decisions who is safe to keep and mange in-house and who needs to go out for higher levels of care.  

Learning Objectives

• Review best practices for assessing patients undergoing substance abuse withdrawal
• Describe new clinical skills for managing these patients
• Discuss how to determine who is safe to keep in-house for observation and management and who needs to be sent out