Description
August 20, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM Integration of Traditional Cultural Practices in Behavioral Health Services
Description:
Join the ME SUD Learning Community and the Mi’kmaq Health Department to explore how incorporating traditional cultural practices can improve treatment outcomes for patients with SUD.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe studies that have been done to show how cannabis worsens outcomes when treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
- List the evidence-based treatments showing effectiveness for the treatment of PTSD and explain why the use of cannabis can make these treatments less effective.
- Describe how the use of high THC cannabis for PTSD can result in increasing rates of cannabis use disorder, psychosis, suicide, and violence
Presenter: Erik Lamoreau RRCP, LADC CCS
Hello, my name is Erik and I am a person in long term recovery. What that means to me is I haven’t found it necessary to use any mind or mood altering substance since February 20th, 2014. As a person in recovery, I have achieved many goals. I have found a passion for helping others and work in the field of behavioral health. I was able to return to school and was elected student of the year for 2019 for Northern Maine Community College, I am the SUD Peer Recovery Program Coordinator for the Mi’kmaq Family Health Services. I sponsor other men in 12-step programs. I am a trained recovery coach supervisor and community naloxone distributor. I am a responsible member of society, a strong advocate in my community for recovery, and a valued member of the workforce. Most importantly I am a girl dad, son, grandson and husband. I get to be the vision of hope for the next person trying to recover.
Continuing Medical Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.
This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Contact Hours 1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
