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CASACONFERENCE , Missed Opportunity: Substance Abuse and Primary Care

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The principal objectives of this CASACONFERENCE will be to bring immediate attention to the profound disconnect between primary care and substance abuse detection and treatment. This CASACONFERENCE will, in part, build upon the findings of CASA's report, Missed Opportunity: National Survey of Primary Care Physicians and Patients on Substance Abuse . The most troubling finding of the survey is that 94% of primary care physicians (excluding pediatricians) failed to include substance abuse among the five diagnoses they offered when presented with early symptoms of alcohol abuse in an adult patient. CASA's survey revealed some of  other  reasons why physicians are missing or misdiagnosing patients'substance abuse:  lack of adequate medical school training ; skepticism about treatment effectiveness ; patient resistance ; discomfort discussing substance abuse ; time constraints ; fear of losing patients ; and lack of insurance coverage . The conference  will assist primary care practitioners and  those who work with them by bringing together the leading researchers and practitioners in the areas of primary care and substance abuse, in all its facets.

Keynote addresses will be presented by Nora D. Volkow, M.D ., Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) /National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Louis W. Sullivan, M.D ., President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine and former Secretary, U.S. Health and Human Services.

Jackie Judd , Vice President and Senior Advisor for Communications, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and former Special Assignment Correspondent, ABC News ; and Frank Sesno , Professor of Public Policy and Communication, George Mason University and former Anchor, White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief, CNN and Gordon Peterson , Senior Correspondent and Anchor, ABC7/WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C. will moderate panel discussion s .

David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D. , Director, National Center for Primary Care; H. Westley Clark, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., CAS, FASAM, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA);  June E. Osborn, M.D. , President, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Jeffrey H. Samet, M.D., M.P.H ., Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and Mark S. Gold, M.D. , Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Education, and Director, McKnight Brain Institute, Division of Addiction Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville , Glen R. Hanson, D.D.S, Ph.D ., Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, University of Utah, and former Director, NIDA; Stanley E. Gitlow, M.D. , Clinical Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine;  Ralph I. Lopez, M.D.,  Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Attending Physician, Weill Cornell Medical Center ; Sue Ellen Levkoff, Sc.D., M.S.W., S.M. , Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Jason R. Kilmer, Ph.D. , Addictive Behaviors Specialist and Adjunct Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA and Substance Abuse Prevention Program Coordinator, St. Martin's College, Lacy, WA; Alison A. Moore, M.D., M.P.H. , Practitioner of Geriatrics and Assistant Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Barrett A. Toan, M.P.A. , Chairman and CEO, Express Scripts, Inc.; and  Brian Hurley, Medical Student, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and Director of Curriculum, Health Professional Students for Substance Abuse Training  will also participate. 

Co-sponsored with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) / National Institutes of Health (NIH), The National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine , and The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.