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Activity Date: 04/30/2020

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Session Time and Location

The live session is complete.

Target Audience

This course is designed for pharmacists, nurse practitioners or other health care professionals involved in the comprehensive medication management of psychiatric and/or neurological patients.

Session Summary

Psychiatric and neurologic pharmacists are frequently asked about evaluating toxicological test results. Unfortunately, post-mortem medication levels do not correlate with those observed in living individuals. This requires additional knowledge about what fluids and/or tissues should be tested based on the suspected substance. This program will provide an overview of the challenges of post-mortem/forensic toxicology, while also reviewing established references, and the challenges of detecting novel psychoactive substances.

Course Requirements

To receive ACPE credit for the live session at the Annual Meeting, you must:

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Upon successful completion, ACPE credit is reported within 24 hours to CPE Monitor although transcripts can be retrieved by participants online in their ACPE Transcript.

Faculty Information

Robert A. Middleberg, PhD, F-ABFT, DABCC-TC

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Learning Objectives

  1. Identify forensic toxicology screening tools for psychiatric medications and substances.
  2. Explain common post-mortem pharmacokinetic changes to medication levels in various sample types.
  3. Discuss the difficulties in staying current with the laboratory-based detection of novel psychoactive substances.
  4. Discuss the limitations of published literature on forensic pharmacokinetics.

 

Continuing Education Credit and Disclosures

Activity Date: 04/30/2020
ACPE Contact Hours: 1
ACPE Number: 0284-0000-20-038-L01-P (Knowledge)
Nursing Credit Reminder: Note that ACPE credit is accepted for ANCC Certification Renewal and AANPCB advanced practice provider content. For specific questions related to your organization's acceptance of ACPE continuing education units, please contact your organization directly.

ACPEThe College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

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