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ForwardOpioid 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.
Responsible Prescribing of Controlled Substances: The Louisiana Requirement
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.
Pain Management Pearls: Opioids and Culture
Pain affects all domains of life, and clinicians have few effective tools at their disposal to help these patients. Opioids remain the strongest group of analgesic drugs available.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Pain and Best Practices for Managing Acute Pain
This lecture provides medical professionals with clinical practice guidelines based on the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain.
Category
- CDC Clinic...See more
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Cost $0.00
CDC’s 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (Web Based) - WB4701R
This module provides an overview of the 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline recommendations intended for clinicians providing pain care, including those prescribing opioids for outpatients with acute, subacute, and chronic pain.
Prescription Opioids: Risk Management and Strategies for Safe Use
This course will extensively cover the various approaches recommended or mandated for use by clinicians who prescribe opioids, in order to reduce risk and improve outcomes.
Buprenorphine Mini Course: Building on Federal Prescribing Guidance
This 2-hour mini course for medical providers, clinicians, and students reviews prescribing buprenorphine to patients with opioid use disorder and is presented by ASAM in collaboration with the American Medical Association (AMA) and Shatterproof.
Category
- Buprenorphine
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Cost $0.00
Pain Management and Opioids: A Patient-Centered Approach
Healthcare providers who prescribe opioid analgesics have a responsibility to help ensure the safe and effective use of opioid analgesics.
Category
- Pain Manag...See more
Format
- Self-study / Enduring
Credits
- 2.00 AAPA Category I CME
Cost $0.00
Prescription Opioids and Pain Management: The Tennessee Guidelines
Opioid analgesic medications can bring substantial relief to patients suffering from pain.