Club Drugs

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Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Outline the history of club drug use.
2. Discuss the epidemiology of club drug use in the United States.
3. Outline the pharmacology, clinical effects, and treatment of MDMA abuse.
4. Describe the pharmacology, clinical effects, and treatment of GHB and ketamine abuse.
5. Discuss the pharmacology, clinical effects, and treatment of flunitrazepam abuse, including its association with the facilitation of sexual assault.
6. Describe the importance of utilizing an interpreter when assessing club drug use in non-English-proficient patients.

Mark Rose, BS, MA, LP, is a licensed psychologist in the State of Minnesota with a private consulting practice and a medical research analyst with a biomedical communications firm. Earlier healthcare technology assessment work led to medical device and pharmaceutical sector experience in new product development involving cancer ablative devices and pain therapeutics. Along with substantial experience in addiction research, Mr. Rose has contributed to the authorship of numerous papers on CNS, oncology, and other medical disorders. He is the lead author of papers published in peer-reviewed addiction, psychiatry, and pain medicine journals and has written books on prescription opioids and alcoholism published by the Hazelden Foundation. He also serves as an Expert Advisor and Expert Witness to law firms that represent disability claimants or criminal defendants on cases related to chronic pain, psychiatric/substance use disorders, and acute pharmacologic/toxicologic effects. Mr. Rose is on the Board of Directors of the Minneapolis-based International Institute of Anti-Aging Medicine and is a member of several professional organizations.

Contributing faculty, Mark Rose, BS, MA, LP, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

John M. Leonard, MD

Jane C. Norman, RN, MSN, CNE, PhD

Alice Yick Flanagan, PhD, MSW

James Trent, PhD

The division planners have disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.

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