As of June 27, 2023 all Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-registered practitioners need to attest to 8 hours of CME dedicated to Opioid Use Disorder and/or Substance Use Disorder. This is a one-time attestation for all new and renewal applications. Past trainings do count towards the 8-hour requirement. If you previously held an X-Wavier or are boarded certified in addiction medicine, no further education is required for the DEA. Read more about the New DEA training requirement here. 

If you are looking for information on the Illinois relicensure requirements, visit this page: Illinois Licensure Requirements from IDFPR.

Requirements are subject to change, and each professional is responsible for ensuring that they are meeting the requirements for their licensure.

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Below is a list of current offerings from Advocate Health to help meet the DEA education requirements. New offerings will be added, so be sure to check back often.

Online, recorded options:
 

• Functional Neurologic Disorder - EM
• Opioid Series - No Opioids? No Problem - EM
• Opioid Series - Dependency Vs Opioid Use Disorder - EM
• Opioid Series- Weaning- When to, When not to - EM
• Overdose Data to Action: Opioid Sparing Multimodal Analgesia
• Buprenorphine For Opioid Use Disorder Recorded Presentation
• MG PCP Opioid Conference - Benzodiazepine Tapering recording
• Opioid Dependence Vs Opioid Use Disorder: How to help a Patient through Withdrawal Recorded Presentation
• Opioid Use Disorder PCP Case Conference Recorded Presentation
• A Cry for Comfort: Optimizing Postoperative Opioid Use in the NICU Recorded Presentation | Advocate Health
• MG Opioid Conference - Agreements and Naloxone - Waste of Time? Recorded Presentation…
• MAR NOW: Rapid Access to Medications for Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders recording
• The Science Behind Chronic Pain: Language Providers Can Use for Patient Education and Identification of Opioid Use Recorded Presentation
• Antidotes Are No Joke! Policy and Operational Pearls on Antidotes Recorded Session
• Emergency Department Buprenorphine Induction recording
• Population Health Pharmacy: A Lesser-Known Part of the One Pharmacy Mission Recorded Presentation
• Urgent Care Skill's Experience 2026
• MEDtalks: How to approach inheriting patients on controlled substances Recorded Presentation
• Medication Management in Neonatal and Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): From Priming to Infusion Recorded Presentation

Here are other resources available outside of Advocate Health to help meet the DEA education requirements:

• AMA Ed Hub: Substance Use Disorders and Addiction Education to Meet New DEA Requirements
• American College of Physicians: Pain Management Series 
• New England Journal of Medicine: Pain Management and Opioids - NEJM Knowledge 

The following materials can be accessed with an aah.org email:

• ED Mat Algorithm: AAH Opioid Resources - AAH MAT Algorithm Rev 2023.03.23.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)
• Pocket Guide for MAT: AAH Opioid Resources - Medication_Assistant_PocketGuide_Final.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)
• Home Induction: 
  • AAH Opioid Resources - Home Inductions Pt Instructions 4mg rev.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)
  • AAH Opioid Resources - Home Inductions Pt Instructions 8mg.pdf - All Documents (sharepoint.com)