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SCOPE of Pain: Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - Tuesday, September 27, 2016

CME Provider:
Boston University School of Medicine ›
Continuing Medical Education
72 E. Concord Street, A402
Boston, Massachusetts (MA) 02118
United States

Phone: (617) 638-4605
Fax: (617) 638-4905

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Conference Center:
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center ›
8 Prospect St.
Nashua, New Hampshire (NH) 03060
United States

Phone: 603-577-2000

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Description:
Chronic pain affects approximately 100 million in the US, making it one of the most common reasons for patients to seek medical care. Unfortunately, pain management, including the appropriate use of opioids, is not well covered in medical training. Moreover, there are inadequate numbers of pain management specialists to help generalist providers manage these patients.

Partly in response to the problem of under-treatment of pain, over the past decade there has been a four-fold increase in opioid prescribing. During the same time period there was a four-fold increase in unintentional opioid overdose deaths and a five-fold increase in substance abuse treatment admissions for prescription opioid addiction.

Providers who prescribe ER/LA opioid analgesics to treat chronic pain are in a key position to balance the benefits and risks of chronic opioid therapy (COT). However, providers struggle with the need to assist their patients with adequate management of chronic pain while confronting the risks associated with opioid prescribing. Our educational program looks to address that need. Strategies for multidisciplinary, inter-professional care are addressed in this curriculum.

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Instructors:
Dan P. Alford, MD, MPH, FACP

CME Credit:
Physicians: 3 Hours

Self Assessment Module (SAM): No

Specialty Audience:
Emergency Medicine Family Medicine Internal Medicine Medical Ethics Obstetrics / Gynecology Pathology Pediatrics Preventative Medicine Psychiatry Quality Assurance Risk Management Surgery

CME Sam Course #15277

Map of Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, 8 Prospect St., Nashua, New Hampshire (NH), United States

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