
How Do You Leverage an Interprofessional Team to Manage Addiction?
Yale instructors use a scripted patient case, a man named Jesse, to show how a multi-disciplinary team manages substance use disorder across four stages of treatment. Nurses, physicians, social workers, counselors, pharmacists, and peer specialists each take a turn explaining their specific role in the chronic care model, from urgent stabilization through ongoing management. The lesson references the Massachusetts Collaborative Care Model as a working example of coordinated addiction care and discusses how clinicians without access to a fully integrated team can still apply interprofessional principles in resource-limited settings. Part of Yale's Addiction Treatment: Clinical Skills for Healthcare Providers course, this is lesson 3.6, aimed at practicing clinicians rather than a general audience, and it stays close to practical workflow rather than theory.