These podcasts are designed to provide effective, evidence-based strategies to reduce serious adverse outcomes resulting from inappropriate prescribing, misuse, and abuse of opioid analgesics, while managing chronic pain in older adults.

Podcasts

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Podcast 1: Basics of Pain Management | 0.50 Credit
Podcast 2: Creating the Pain Treatment Plan | 0.50 Credit
Podcast 3: Managing Older Patients on Opioid Analgesics | 0.50 Credit
Podcast 4: Addiction Medicine: A Primer | 0.50 Credit

Learning Objectives

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• Discuss fundamental concepts of pain management, including definitions, and mechanisms of pain
• Describe how to assess patients in pain 
• Identify risk factors for abuse and addiction
• Describe the range of therapeutic options for managing pain, including nonpharmacologic approaches and pharmacologic (non-opioid and opioid analgesics) therapies
• Integrate opioid analgesics into a pain treatment plan individualized to the needs of the patient
• Discuss how to safely and effectively manage patients on opioid analgesics in the acute and chronic pain settings, including initiating therapy, titrating, and discontinuing use of opioid analgesics
• Describe how to counsel patients and caregivers about the safe use of opioid analgesics, including proper storage and disposal
• Relate how to counsel patients and caregivers about the use of naloxone for opioid overdose
• Discuss when referral to a pain specialist is appropriate
• Describe the fundamental elements of addiction medicine
• Identify patients with opioid use disorder
• Manage patients with opioid use disorder

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