The presentation will describe the best eating practices to optimize patient outcomes in the psychiatric patient population.  Objectives include:

1. Describe the role of the microbiome in psychiatric disorders and the foods which affect it positively and negatively.
2. List the most common nutritional deficiencies which can affect mental health.
3. Take a patient nutritional history.
4. Understand how food deserts and lack of knowledge about health promoting foods can negatively affect patients.
5. Use motivational interviewing to promote mental health promoting food choices in patients.

Review harms of tobacco use and evidence-base treatment.  Objectives include: 

1. Understand health disparities related to commercial tobacco and factors that cause these disparities.
2. Describe disease burden of tobacco use.
3. Assess the drivers of tobacco use .?
4. Understand evidence-based treatment for tobacco use including pharmacotherapy and behavioral therapy.

How to use a psychopharmacology approach to treat various substance and non-substance addictions. Included topics such as root causes of substance use disorders, support services and how undiagnosed trauma contributes.  Objectives inlcude: 

1. Recognize, identify and diagnose the root causes of substance use disorders.
2. Choose correct psychotropic medications based on correlating identified imbalances with knowledge of individual medications' mechanism of action.
3. Learn how to properly, safely, and effectively perform outpatient alcohol and benzodiazepine detoxes.
4. Identify support services and other resources to augment medication management.
5. Assess for trauma by using Adverse Childhood Events screening and demonstrate how ACE scores correlate to poor outcomes.