Responding to the Opioid Crisis in Kentucky: New Information for Therapists

*** Parking will be located behind the building for this event. Please pull around the circle and go to the back entrance where the doors will be open to the Bronte Bistro.

During this training, Greg Jones, MD, will review some of the history that placed us in the current opioid crisis and review briefly the signs and symptoms frequently encountered working with those addicted to opiods or functioning with difficulty related to opioid use. He will touch upon traditional and commonly used treatment approaches and provide a cautionary warning based on data from studies in Kentucky.

Speaker: Greg Jones, MD, Kentucky Physicians Health
Location: Joseph Beth Booksellers, Bronte Bistro
Dinner and socializing begins at 6 PM. Training starts at 6:30 PM.
CEU's: One Board-approved CEU awarded to participants

Registration is free for KSCSW members, $15 for non- members.
Space is limited! Register today!

Greg L. Jones, MD

Dr. Jones was born in Rome, Georgia in 1955. Dr. Jones has a BA in Chemistry, Cum Laude, from Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. His medical degree is from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA, 1980.

Dr. Jone's Family Medicine training was in Anniston, Alabama, where he then served on the faculty of the Residency until 1992. During his years in Anniston, he was President of the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians and the Director of the Residency program.

Dr. Jones moved to Paducah, Kentucky, with Lourdes Hospital and then to Danville, Kentucky working for Ephraim McDowell RMC in Family Medicine.

In 2001 Dr. Jones completed an Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Willingway Hospital in Statesboro, Georgia. Following this he returned to Kentucky to develop the first Medical Detox unit in Eastern Kentucky at Pikeville Methodist Hospital, serving as Medical Director.

From there, Dr. Jones became the Director of Medical Services at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington for seven years. His practice there included full in-patient Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. While in Lexington he was also on the Board of Directors of the Kentucky Physicians Health Foundation and the Shepherd’s House in Lexington.

Dr. Jones went back to Willingway Hospital as a Staff Physician for several years. He then became the Medical Director of the Kentucky Physicians Health Foundation for five years.

In 2016 Dr. Jones joined the faculty of the University of Florida, College of Medicine. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Addiction Medicine. His duties included the evaluation and treatment of Healthcare Professionals with Substance Use and Mental Health disorders. He also taught Addiction Medicine to Medical Students, Residents and Fellows. He returned to the position of Medical Director of the Kentucky Physicians Health Foundation in June of 2017.

Dr. Jones is Board Certified in Family Medicine by ABFM and in Addiction Medicine by ABAM. He was appointed a Fellow of American Society of Addiction Medicine in 2017.

Dr. Jones and his wife, Judy, are the grandparents of three wonderful children, who are in no way spoiled.