1 Hour Webinar Training with Albee Budnitz, MD

PRESENTATION: This training will discuss the population and public health impact of tobacco product use, including disparities; tobacco products from cigarettes’ to electronic devices’ health impacts relative to tobacco related disease as well as and especially as relates to Tobacco Use Disorder (TUD) -nicotine addiction; what can be done about it; and how all this relates to youth.

As a result of this training participants will be able to:

1. Identify why tobacco product use is a population, public health and societal problem;
2. Understand nicotine and nicotine addiction; and how it relates to tobacco products; and
3. Become aware of what can be done about it and resources to do it.

Dr. Bunditz was one of select few to be called “Koop’s Troops in The Tobacco Wars” in the 1990s when he worked closely with Dr. C. Everett Koop whose fight on tobacco use is legendary. Dr. Bunditz continues to be part of the Koop Institute of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He chairs the Tobacco Free NH network, the Nashua Prevention Coalition and teaches tobacco issues to UNECOM and Dartmouth med students and anyone else who cares to listen.

REGISTRATION FEE: *NHADACA Members: Free, *Non-Members $15.  For registration information contact: 603-225-7060 or training@nhadaca.org

1 Contact Hour Available
CRSW Performance Domains: 3, 4
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence:  1, 2, 5, 7
Certified Prevention Specialist Domains: 2, 3, 5, 6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category A) & Psychologist (Category A)  NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services