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DSD Service System · Practice
Recognize the barriers people with disabilities face in substance use treatment, help them reach accessible care in Minnesota's system, and use harm reduction and stigma-free practice in disability services work.
About 48 minutes, plus optional practice · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning
Describe what federal guidance says about substance use disorders among people with physical and cognitive disabilities.
Explain the general obligation of treatment programs to provide equal access for people with disabilities.
Describe the two-way relationship between traumatic brain injury and substance use.
Explain what naloxone does and where Minnesotans can get it, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.
Look up where naloxone is available in the communities you serve using MDH information, and find out what your agency's policy says about naloxone for staff.
Recognize the barriers people with disabilities face in substance use treatment, help them reach accessible care in Minnesota's system, and use harm reduction and stigma-free practice in disability services work.
Look up where naloxone is available in the communities you serve using MDH information, and find out what your agency's policy says about naloxone for staff.
Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
Supports prevalence and treatment-rate statements, barriers, the misreading of cognitive disability as poor motivation, access request and client pathway recommendations, voluntary cognitive screening and notes on disability rights and medications for opioid use disorder. SAMHSA says the advisory is not legal compliance guidance.
Supports statements about the comprehensive assessment, ASAM levels of care, covered services such as withdrawal management, treatment coordination and peer recovery support, and the Behavioral Health Fund. A provider billing manual; check current DHS guidance for the public-facing process.
Supports what naloxone does, that it is harmless in other emergencies, where to get it, the advice to call 911, and the existence of Minnesota's Good Samaritan protections. Legal specifics go to counsel.
Supports the person-first and stigma-free language guidance and the link between stigma and willingness to seek treatment.
Supports the two-way relationship between traumatic brain injury and substance use described in Lesson 3.
Supports the framing of recovery as a process of change for people with mental health and substance use conditions, used alongside harm reduction in Lesson 4.