At the conclusion of this activity, learners should be able to:

1. Assess how s/he makes decisions in common clinical situations; where s/he is likely to error and then develop her/his own self-assessment program of improvement;
2. Increase her/his knowledge of the latest findings in the field of addiction psychiatry;
3. Expand her/his knowledge of substance use disorders;
4. Identify strengths and weaknesses in the practice of addiction psychiatry.

• • General Concepts in Substance Use Disorders
  • Neurobiology and Genetics of Substance Use Disorders 
  • Screening/Brief Intervention and Prevention of Substance Use Disorders 
  • Psychosocial Treatments of Substance Use Disorders 
  • Alcohol Use Disorders 
  • Opiate use Disorders
  • Pain and Addiction 
  • Sedative/Hypnotic Addictions 
  • Tobacco Use Disorders and Smoking Cessation 
  • Psychostimulant Use Disorders 
  • Club Drugs/Cannabis 
  • Medical Co-Morbidities of Substance Use Disorders
  • Dual Diagnosis – Affective and Anxiety Disorders 
  • Dual Diagnosis – Personality Disorders and Psychosis 
  • Children and Transitional Youth/ADHD 
  • Special Populations 
  • Legal issues and Drug testing    

• Test-taker may log-in and log-out at will before the exam closes on 12/31/2023. 
• Participants have the option of taking the exam in Learn Mode (feedback provided after answering each question) or Exam Mode (feedback provided aftering all questions).
• To claim designated credit, test-takers must earn a minimum passing grade of at least 70% on the examination.

Method of physician participation in the learning process This examination should be used as a study guide for completing a Maintenance Of Certification (MOC) Board Examination. In order to fulfill ABPN’s requirement each physician should complete all 100 questions in the self-assessment examination and in order to receive credit, learners need to receive a passing grade of 70% or higher. The estimated time to complete the examination itself is 10 hours (3 hours completing the examination including studying research and materials; 7 hours review of responses, explanations, references, peer responses and selection of areas identified after the learners have taken the examination.)