Guidelines for Prescribing Controlled Substances for Pain

** Please note this program was featured in OPSC's 35th Annual Fall Conference, CME by the Bay 2024, held in Monterey, California. If you attended this event in person or purchased the digital edition, you will not qualify for CME credits by participating in the program. **

This lecture will review and discuss the guidelines for prescribing controlled substances for pain which were released in July 2023. This knowledge will assist treating physicians in understanding, treating, and other care that is needed to address patients with acute and chronic care in various settings. This lecture is essential to appropriately manage this patient population.

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding Pain Terminology
• Patient evaluation and assessment
• Initiating Opioid Trial
• Counseling patients on overdose risk and response.
• Ongoing pain assessment
• Compliance Monitoring
• Tapering and discontinuing opioid therapy
• Terminating Care
• Medical Records Keeping
• Supervising Allied Health Professions
• Special Populations (Acute pain, cancer pain, Emergency care, inherited patients, older adults, pediatric patients, Cannabis use in pregnancy women, Workers' compensation patients, those with a history of substance abuse, psychiatric patients, patients on benzodiazepines, Telehealth.

Disclosure: None Reported

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). The Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of California (OPSC) is accredited by the AOA to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. 

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