Launch Date
04/30/2020
Credit Amount
1.0
Credit Expires
12/31/2023
With the opioid crisis resulting in up to a 30% increase in overdoses among men and a 24% increase among women from July 2016 through September 2017, it is imperative that health care providers (HCPs), including pharmacists, work with patients to achieve goals that will reverse these destructive trends. When making treatment decisions, HCPs also need to make patients aware of safer, non-opioid alternatives to pain management.
The second installment of this CME Outfitters BriefCase series on addressing the opioid epidemic in our communities focuses on how HCPs can educate their patients about their pain and about nonopioid pain management in order to optimize safe and effective, multimodal treatment plans.
At the end of this CME/CE activity, participants should be able to:
Supported by an educational grant from Johnson & Johnson, administered by Johnson & Johnson.
Pharmacists
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Vincent Capone, MPAS, MSW, PA-C has no disclosures to report.
Peter Kreckel, RPh has no disclosures to report.
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