Healing Practice: Integrating Cultural Awareness into Evidence-based Addiction Treatment

Friday, April 25, 2025

1:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Presenter(s)

Charles Reznikoff, MD, FASAM, FACP

Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Program director, Internal Medicine
Hennepin Healthcare, Univesity of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ese B. Aghenta, MD, MPH, FASAM, FAAFP

Hospital Medicine/Addiction Medicine
North Memorial Health
Plymouth, Minnesota
Cailean Dakota MacColl, BA, BS

Medical Student
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Seleipiri I. Akobo, MD, MBA, MPH,DABOM,FASAM

Hospital Medicine/Addiction Medicine
Maine Medical Center
South Portland, Maine
Omar Hassan, MD

Residenct physician
Hennepin healthcare
maple grove, Minnesota

Non-presenting author(s)

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Amanda Dionne

Assistant Director
Center of American Indian and Minority Health/University of Minnesota/School of Medicine
Minneapolis, Minnesota

In this workshop, you will hear and discuss teachings of Ojibwe and Lakota elders on how Native ceremonial practices can heal SUDs. You will learn how to incorporate trauma-informed practices to strengthen the recovery of Americans from the African continent with SUDs. Finally, you will understand how Muslim individuals observant of Ramadan and people of Hmong ethnicity can achieve better outcomes on MOUD by acknowledging their cultures.

Learning Objectives:

Learners will be able to:

Use cultural humility, trauma-informed care, and patient centered care to listen to patients with SUD about how they would like to incorporate their personal history or cultural approach to healing within their recovery.
Develop flexibility with clinical protocols to empower patients to maintain their cultural healing practices while accepting evidence-based treatment of substance use disorders.
Communicate more effectively with Native Americans, Hmong Americans, Muslim Americans, and Americans from the African continent about their individual approach to recovery.

Disclosure(s):

Charles Reznikoff, MD, FASAM, FACP: No financial relationships to disclose

Ese B. Aghenta, MD, MPH, FASAM, FAAFP: No financial relationships to disclose

Cailean Dakota MacColl, BA, BS: No financial relationships to disclose

Seleipiri I. Akobo, MD, MBA, MPH,DABOM,FASAM: No financial relationships to disclose

Omar Hassan, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Amanda Dionne: No financial relationships to disclose