ASAM 101: Basics on Understanding and Using ASAM Patient Placement Criteria, Revised Second Edition (ASAM PPC-2R)
A 3-hour course that will introduce students to key concepts and issues of the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria.  

Goals/Objectives

Clinicians involved in planning and managing care often lack a common language and systematic assessment and treatment approach that allows for effective, individualized services. The Patient Placement Criteria of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) first published in 1991, provided common language to help the field develop a broader continuum of care.  They were updated and the second edition (ASAM PPC-2) was published in April 1996.  A revised second edition was published in April 2001.

In this course, participants will:

  1. Describe the basic underlying concepts and principles of the ASAM Patient Placement Criteria;
  2. Define the various levels of service; what defines the intensity of service; and how they fit together into a continuum of care;
  3. Apply the diagnostic and admission criteria and how to use them to match clients to appropriate levels of service;
  4. Summarize beginning steps to implement the ASAM Criteria to move from program-driven care to person-centered services.

Your Course Instructor:
David Mee-Lee, M.D.

David Mee-Lee, M.D. is based in Davis, CA and is involved in full time training and consulting focused on developing and promoting innovative behavioral health treatment that values clinical integrity, high quality, and cost-consciousness.  He is Chair of the Criteria Committee of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), and is Chair of the Coalition for National Clinical Criteria.  Dr. Mee-Lee was one of the authors of the Cleveland Criteria; and also the first edition and seconds of the ASAM Criteria; and is the chief Editor of the revised second edition of the ASAM Criteria, ASAM PPC-2R, published in April, 2001.   

Dr. Mee-Lee is a board-certified psychiatrist and is certified by examination of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.  Dr. Mee-Lee’s clients involve both provider and practitioner groups, as well as managed care organizations.  

Dr. Mee-Lee has had a number of articles published on addiction in various publications, and has developed an instrument for individualized treatment planning, the Recovery Attitude and Treatment Evaluator (RAATE).