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Opioid Safety: Balancing Benefits and Risks
Opioid analgesics are approved by the FDA for the treatment of moderate or severe pain. However, individual patients differ greatly in clinical response to different opioid analgesics, and patient populations show widely variable response to the same opioid and dose.
Substance Use Disorders and Pain Management: MATE Act Training
Substance use disorders continue to be an important health issue in the United States and can lead to significant problems in all aspects of a person's life. Appropriate assessment and management of substance use is a priority in patient care.
Responsible and Effective Opioid Prescribing
Opioid analgesic medications can bring substantial relief to patients suffering from pain.
Opioid Use Disorder
Morphine and heroin were first synthesized and used medicinally in the nineteenth century, and recreational and illicit use followed.
Sexual Addiction
Professionals continue to debate whether sexual addiction can be classified and treated in the same realm as chemical addictions; this course will give participants the necessary information and allow them to decide for themselves.
Conducting Culturally Sensitive Psychosocial Research
The reality is that practitioners, including nurses, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and mental health workers, observe and interact with a variety of social problems and generally have questions about: the magnitude of the problem; the psychosocial ramifications on individual