Presented online Tuesday evening Nov 16 at 7:30 PM.  Please pre-register for this free program by emailing cpt@concordps.org and typing “Scott Lukas” in the subject line. We will then send you the link.

About our presenter Scott E. Lukas, Ph.D.  Dr. Lukas joined McLean Hospital in 1984 and is currently the Director of the McLean Imaging Center, the Behavioral Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory, and the McLean Sleep Diagnostic and Treatment Laboratory. He is Professor of Psychiatry (Pharmacology) at Harvard Medical School and has 42 years of experience conducting both preclinical and human laboratory studies as well as randomized clinical trials of drugs for alcohol abuse, sleep disorders, and psychiatric disorders using a variety of imaging modalities.

Parents, this workshop is designed to familiarize you with fentanyl, that is increasingly contaminating many street drugs.  It has led to a tremendous loss of life nationwide when, thinking they were taking something different, people have been poisoned by fentanyl.  It is vitally important that you become aware of the proliferation of this substance throughout our country.  Please take the time to hear this presentation so you can more effectively talk with your teens about the risks and guide them so they stay safe.

What you will learn by listening to this online presentation:

• Be able to recognize what pharmaceutical grade and street fentanyl looks like

• Appreciate the uniqueness of the fentanyl patch and the challenges it presents to the medical community and the dangers to the public

• Understand how opiates exert their effects on the brain and the rest of the body

• Be able to recognize a person who is taking opiates, including early warning signs of an overdose

• Understand the mechanism of action of opiates and how fentanyl differs from other “conventional” opiates

• Understand the patterns of opiate abuse and how fentanyl’s patterns are unique

• Understand how opiates and especially fentanyl affect breathing and how this leads to overdoses and death
• Learn why fentanyl is being mixed with other drugs and appreciate the increased danger of this practice

• Understand the medical approaches to treating fentanyl overdose& how the strategy is modified for fentanyl

• Learn various approaches parents can use to protect children and adolescents from fentanyl.