Dental Team Curriculum: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Problem Prevention

This 1-day course helps dental teams, including dentists and hygienists, to increase their substance abuse prevention activities in clinical settings, health care systems, communities, and the public policy arena.

Learning Objectives

  1. increase your understanding of substance abuse prevention;

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  2. increase your ability to provide prevention messages in the clinical setting;

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  3. increase your ability to interview patients at risk for ATOD problems and improve your ability to make referrals;

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  4. learn skills to change or influence health systems to include prevention; and

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  5. support prevention efforts in your community and in the profession, including the public policy arena.

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