Opioid Primer: How to Support Safe Opioid Prescribing?
Learn about the CDC's Opioid Guidelines, chronic opioid therapy, and tools to ensure safe and effective regimens in this CPE activity for healthcare professionals.
About this course
Following the 2018 release of the CDC’s Opioid Guidelines, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals have become increasingly involved in the identification and management of substance use disorders. However, the wording of the guidelines has created ambiguity around the appropriateness of opioid use. Improving understanding of chronic opioid therapy will allow pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to partner with providers to ensure regimens are safe and effective. This CPE activity will focus on presenting guidelines as a “guideline” rather than a black and white application for all patients. Areas of ambiguity such as MED cut-offs will be addressed. Tools to help determine the safety and efficacy of therapy will be introduced. The relationship between mental health conditions and opioid use will also be discussed.
Course Accreditation
This course is approved for the following professions. You can get more details on each profession by clicking on it.
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Requirements
Participants must score a passing grade of 70% or higher on the activity post-test and complete an activity evaluation. There are no time limits and unlimited test-taking attempts. Credits will be reported automatically to CE Broker if your license information is entered properly in your profile.
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10
- Mac OS X 10.1+
- iOS 10+
- Android 4.3+
- Google Chrome
- Microsft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Broadband Internet Connection: T1
- Hi-speed DSL or Cable4G cellular connection
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