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Class Details

Below are the details about this event:

Class Name:  
Environmental Public Health Consequences of Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratories
Class Description:
This course offers a unique opportunity to learn about the clinical health effects of methamphetamine use and abuse, the hazards of synthesis, health effects of methamphetamines, and clean up and remediation of clandestine laboratories. Children's health and exposure considerations will also be presented.

The ACMT faculty members are board certified and fellowship trained physician medical toxicologists. They
have extensive experience directly caring for patients suffering from the ill effects of chemical agents and poisons. For more information about ACMT please visit their web-site at http://www.acmt.net/index.html.

Target Audience:
The audience will include law enforcement, emergency physicians and medical technicians, public health and environmental professionals, social services providers, HAZMAT professionals, first responders, public policy professionals and others who may work on issues related to clandestine methamphetamine laboratories.

Topics:

  1. Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratories: What are the Issues?
  2. Methamphetamine Neurotoxicity:
  3. Chemical Hazards of Methamphetamine Lab Seizures: Managing Patients Brought from the Scene
  4. Evaluation of the Most Vulnerable Population: Children Exposed to Methamphetamine.
  5. Protection and Monitoring of Personnel Involved in Laboratory Seizure and Clean-Up.
  6. Field Detection and Environmental Consequences of Clandestine
    Laboratory Clean Up
  7. Tribal Law Enforcement Perspectives
  8. Treatment of Patients with Methamphetamine Addiction 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the state of methamphetamine use and clandestine methamphetamine laboratories in the US
  2. Identify the clinical effects of methamphetamine and describe the management of acute and chronic toxicity
  3. Describe the law enforcement perspective on methamphetamine in the community
  4. Describe the chemical hazards of methamphetamine synthesis.
  5. Identify personal and environmental protection equipment to be used by first responders
  6. Identify the modalities available to treat victims of the clandestine methamphetamine lab exposure
  7. Identify the occupational monitoring requirements for responders
  8. Identify the special features to be considered for the evaluation of children found at the scene
Class Status:
Registration Open
Class Begins:
August 18, 2009 at 09:00 AM
Class Ends:
August 18, 2009 at 04:30 PM
Class Contact:
Libby Vianu
415-947-4319
vianu.libby@epa.gov
Additional Notes:
This offering is being hosted by the Pala Band of Mission Indians and Pala Indian Fire Department.
Location:
Pala Fire Department EOC Training Center
34884 Lilac Extension Road
Pala, CA 92059
Hotel:
Pala Casino Spa and Resort
11154 Highway 76
Pala, CA
http://www.palacasino.com/