Conference Brochure

Program Schedule

7:30 AM -- 08:30 AM
Coffee and Registration / Exhibit Area Open

8:30 AM -- 08:30 PM

Welcome, Opening Remarks
Robert White, Conference Chairman, Director of Behavioral Health University of Maryland, Department of Psychiatry

8:30 AM -- 09:15 AM

PLENARY: The Overdose Epidemic: A Public Health CrisisLeana Wen, MD, MSc, Commissioner, Baltimore City Health Department Addiction is not just an individual disease; it is a family disease and a community disease. Dr. Wen estimates that close to 19,000 Baltimore City residents use heroin, and is concerned that heroin ties into the very fabric of the city. Dr. Wen will discuss the growing impact of heroin overdose and what the Baltimore City Health Department is doing to address this critical public health crisis. These include public education campaigns and a plan to provide naloxone to family and friends of those most at risk.

9:15 AM -- 10:30 AM

PLENARY: When Love is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson StoryWilliam G. Borchert, Writer and producer, was nominated for an Emmy in 1989 for the highly acclaimed Warner Brothers movie “My Name is Bill”. Lois Wilson (the wife of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous) stuck by her husband through his 17 years of tormented and abusive alcoholic drinking believing that her unconditional love could get him sober. But it could not. It was through Lois’s heart-rending emotional struggle and her witnessing other spouses and children similarly being impacted that she came to realize that addiction is a family disease and that the solution was a program for recovery, a family support group that came to be known as Alanon. This presentation will include film clips from the movie and personal stories from Mr. Borchert’s time interviewing Lois Wilson.

10:30 AM -- 11:00 AM

Coffee Break / Exhibit Area Open

Book Signings: William Borchert, Mel Pohl, MD, Dick Prodey

11:00 AM -- 11:30 AM

PLENARY: The Pain Antidote: It’s Not Opioids!

Mel Pohl, MD, Medical Director, Las Vegas Recovery Center When we think about pain we often wonder whether it’s “real” or not. We have a tendency to believe that pain based in emotions is less “valid” than physical pain. This discussion will explore the fact that all pain is real, based on neurophysiologic phenomena in specific parts of the brain. Opioids often make painful conditions worse. The Pain Antidote will be described as part of a model known as Pain Recovery.

11:30 AM -- 12:30 PM

PLENARY: A Message from the Director of the National Drug Control Policy

*Michael Botticelli, MEd, Director of National Drug Control Policy Mr. Botticelli joined the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) as Deputy Director in November 2012, and was sworn in as Director in February 2015. Mr. Botticelli previously served as Director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services at the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health, where he successfully expanded innovative and nationally recognized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery services. While there, he established a treatment system for adolescents, early intervention and treatment programs in primary healthcare settings, jail diversion programs, re-entry services, and overdose prevention programs. * This speaker’s presentation is free and open to the public. Participants will not receive CEUs or CME credits for this lecture, only.

12:30 PM -- 01:45 PM

Lunch – Two options• The regular Conference Lunch is in the Grand Ballroom, 4th Floor (no extra charge - 1,000 in attendance) • The NCADD-MD Awards Luncheon will be in a separate location.

• Workshops I & II To be held once at 2:00 PM and once at 3:45 PM 
  
  Opioid Overdose Prevention: Updates & Naloxone Training
  Leana Wen, MD, Commissioner, Baltimore City Health Department
  In public health, it is critical to meet people where they are and deliver services
  with the most credible messengers. Dr. Wen has committed to making naloxone
  available to all who need it. Her team has already trained more than 6,000 people
  to administer naloxone, including police officers and family and friends of people
  suffering from addiction. Participants in this workshop will receive training and a
  naloxone prescription, and familiarize participants to dontdie.org, a website that
  lists where to obtain naloxone and how to get training.
  
  Empowering Families: A Panel of Family Members
  Moderators: Dick Prodey, MS, MEd, Retired Director of Counseling at Loyola Blakefield
  and Coordinator of the Alcoholism Program at The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
  Christopher Welsh, MD, Addiction Psychiatrist, Faculty Member, University of
  Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
  This presentation will include a panel of family members (Peggy Burns, Toni Torsch,
  and Barbara Allen) who have had family members affected by substance-use
  disorders, or have lost a child to opioid overdose. It is important to put a human
  face on the problem of addiction and overdose in order to understand its impact on
  families and their communities.
  
  Updates from the Behavioral Health Administration and the ASO (Beacon Health-Maryland)
  Al Zachik, MD, Deputy Director for Child and Adolescent Services for the State of
  Maryland Behavioral Health Administration (BHA)
  Zereana Jess-Huff, LPC, LMFT, CCM, PhD, CEO Beacon Health-Maryland
  Leaders from BHA and Beacon Health-Maryland will update providers on
  changes within the behavioral health treatment system. This is an opportunity
  for counselors, treatment staff and administrators to have direct contact with
  the statewide leadership regarding the behavioral health system and the primary
  vendor providing these services. Discussion and Q&A will follow presentation.
  
  Surviving in a Fee-for-Service World
  Kim Erskine, MS, Owner, Medical Billing Services
  Mark Santangelo, President/CEO of The Kolmac Clinic
  As grant funding is reduced in the manner in which providers are paid, many
  practices find themselves entering uncharted territory. Practices need to rely more
  and more on fee-for-service revenue to keep them afloat. This workshop will
  walk you through the “ins and outs” of behavioral health billing. Pitfalls and best
  practices will be discussed. Behavioral health and specific codes will be presented
  from the ICD-10, DSM-V, CBT and HCPC.
  
  Bill Wilson, the 11th Step and Transcendental Meditation
  Lincoln Norton, AB Harvard ‘67, National Director of Expansion for the Maharishi
  Foundation and a certified teacher at the San Antonio Transcendental Meditation (TM) Center
  The presenter taught Bill Wilson TM on a cold December day in 1969. As a result
  of the instruction and after a few days of practice, Bill said that he had come to a
  deeper understanding of AA’s 11th step. When you meditate, with TM, the body
  gets depressed and heals itself. Whatever is good for people they will move in
  that direction. TM is not a role-based practice, a religion or belief system. People
  in recovery find that practicing TM twice a day satisfies their need for a shift in
  consciousness. It enables them to get more out of life by going in rather than out.
  
  The Latest Gambling Trends: Fantasy Sports and Online Gaming
  Jeff Beck, LPC, CCGC, JD, CART, MCTC, ABD, Clinical Director, Maryland
  Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling, University of Maryland
  An estimated 56 million people will play fantasy sports this year, up from 12
  million, ten years ago. Increasingly, those users are flocking the sites that offer the
  high stakes thrill of a fantasy football play-off game on a daily basis. FanDUEL
  alone boasts more than one million paying members. It is quickly becoming a
  billion dollar industry. Critics argue that the combination of lack of oversight and
  increased dollars makes users more susceptible to addiction and serious losses. This
  workshop will review recent online gaming activities such as fantasy sports, review
  screening and treatment options.
  
  Medical Cannabis in Maryland
  Delegate Dan Morhaim, MD, Member of Maryland House of Delegates, District 11
  Maryland’s Medical Cannabis program is almost operational. How did this come
  about? How will the program work and what changes might be expected? Delegate
  Dan Morhaim, MD, one of the leaders of this bipartisan legislation, will provide
  history and updates, as well as relating medical cannabis to the larger challenges of
  drugs and addiction.
  
  This workshop will be held once at 2 pm.
  What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
  A Path From Addiction to Recovery
  Marc Galanter, MD, Professor of Psychiatry at New York University, and author of What is Alcoholics Anonymous? A Path from Addiction to Recovery, to be published May 2016.
  Dr. Galanter’s presentation is based on his upcoming book in which he bridges
  members’ subjective experiences in AA and the facts as we know them, but also draws
  on contemporary research in psychology, cultural history, and clinical science. His
  findings are infused with experiences of people whom the author has treated himself,
  and ones studied in depth, in their attempts to achieve recovery from addiction,
  coupled with a perspective based on his extensive research on this fellowship. His
  presentation will provide the most comprehensive understanding of the current state
  of this recovery movement.
  
  This workshop will be held once at 2 pm.
  More About Pain and Addiction
  Mel Pohl, MD, Medical Director, Las Vegas Recovery Center
  This workshop is a continuation of the morning plenary session to expand on the
  topics. This discussion will further explore the fact that all pain is real, based on
  neurophysiologic phenomena in specific parts of the brain. Opioids often make
  painful conditions worse. The Pain Antidote will be described as part of a model
  known as Pain Recovery.
  
  This workshop will be held from 2 - 5 pm
  Nurturing the Healer
  Wanda Binns, LCSW-C, EAP Manager, University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore
  As clinicians we are committed to providing support, guidance, and education to
  clients with dark, painful and horrific life circumstances. We are challenged to listen to stories that are emotionally, physically, and spiritually draining. Ethically we are responsible for ensuring we are well enough to provide care to our clients. Some of us lose sight of the saying “Physician Heal Thyself”, as a result we often crash and burn, because we forget to nurture ourselves. This workshop will help clinicians to identify
  what’s preventing the practice of self-care, and to develop a specific treatment plan
  for healing.