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ECHO: Harm Reduction and Mental Health

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Published Date: 08/24/2022

CE Credit: No CE

Description

In this presentation, Dan Suter speaks to the intersection of harm reduction and mental health care while highlighting the prevalence of comorbid substance use disorders and mental illnesses. Dan outlines specific barriers that people who use drugs face when accessing mental health care. Additionally, he shares a variety of screening tools for mental health diagnoses, including but not limited to the Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome Scale (CUAOS), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ). In this discussion, he highlights the strengths and limitations of the various tools in the context of providing care to people who use drugs. Dan also outlines various ways to limit side effects from psychotropic medications.

Presenter(s)

Daniel Suter,MD

Daniel Suter, MD is an Addiction Psychiatrist working in a Collaborative and Integrated Care program at Mount Sinai Hospital. He completed his medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and his Residency training at Mount Sinai Hospital, followed by an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai. He has practiced in both inpatient and outpatient addiction and psychiatry settings and has a passion for increasing access to mental health care through integrative care models and provider education.

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