A Tough Pill to Swallow

Topics:
  • Apply best prescribing practices for opioid analgesics and understand new policies and legislation affecting those practices
  • Evaluate patients for risk of opioid medication abuse, diversion and overdose
  • Explain options for Voluntary Reversible Long Acting Contraception available to women of childbearing age who are taking opioid analgesics
  • Employ methods to counsel patients and caregivers about the safe use of ER/LA opioid analgesics, including proper storage and disposal
  • Demonstrate knowledge about the disease of addiction and identify treatment and recovery resources for patients
Speakers:
  • Stephen Loyd, MD
  • David Bess, PharmD
  • Barry Staubus, JD
  • Steven Baumrucker, MD, FAAHPM, FAAFP
  • David Kirschke, MD
  • Cynthia Thomas, DO
  • Jason Abernathy
  • Angela Dickens
  • Alice McCaffrey