Opioid Prescribing and Preventing Prescription Abuse
Resources for Physicians
Treating
Addiction to Prescription Opioids (The National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2014)
A resource
for treating opioid addiction that describes anti-addiction medications and the
mechanisms through which they operate.
Massachusetts
Prescription Monitoring Program (MA Dept. of Public Health)
All
Massachusetts prescribers seeking to prescribe a Schedule II or III medication
or a benzodiazepine to a patient for the first time must research that
patient's prescribing history in the state Prescription Monitoring Program
(PMP) database
Quick Drug
Screen for Clinicians (NIDA)
A
tool designed to assist clinicians serving adult patients in screening for drug
use.
Integrating
Treatment and Health Care
Resources
from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Clinical
Guidelines for the Use of Buprenorphine in the Treatment of Opioid Addiction (SAMHSA)
Resources for Patients and Families
Overview of Prescription
Drug Abuse (National
Institute of Health, 2014)
A resource to learn more about prescription drug abuse information
regarding drug facts, statistics, news, prevention, and treatment
Opioid Overdose
Toolkit: Safety Advice for Patients & Family Members (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, 2013)
How Do Opioids
Affect the Brain and Body? (The National
Institute on Drug Abuse, 2014)
Describes
the short and long-term effects of opioids on the user’s body and distinguishes
between dependence and addiction.
Physician
Focus Special: Treating Pain, with Great Care
A
physician discusses how to use prescription pain medication safely.
Prescription
Drug Abuse, the Physician’s Perspective (video)
Massachusetts physicians discuss pain medication and management,
and the problem of opioid abuse.
Partnership
for Drug-Free Kids Helpline
A toll-free hotline service for parents or caregivers seeking
support for their child’s drug use
Teen
Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention
The National Institute on Drug Abuse website
features the “PeerX” initiative, an online
educational campaign to discourage abuse of prescription drugs among teens. PeerX also
provides creative ways to promote prevention in the community.
CME on Pain
Management, Opioid Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Legal
Advisor: Identifying Drug Dependence 1.00
CME Credit (risk management)
Managing
Risk When Prescribing Narcotic Painkillers for Patients 1.00 CME Credit (risk management)
Opioid
Prescribing Series (6 modules), 6.00 CME Credits (risk management)
- Prescribing Opioids for Chronic (non-Cancer) Pain
- Tapering Opioids, Opioid Therapy Agreements/Contracts, and
Drug Testing
- Urine Testing and Trends in Opioid Use, Misuse, and Abuse
- The Opioid Abuse Epidemic and Commonly Abused Non-Opioid
Prescription Drugs
- Opioid Use in Special Populations, The Controlled
Substances Act, and Naloxone
- The Prescription Drug Abuse Plan, Prescription Drug
Monitoring Programs, and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS)
Principles
of Palliative Care & Persistent Pain Management (2 Modules, Video), 3.00 CME Credits (risk management)
- Safe and Effective Prescribing: Opioids for
Chronic Pain
- Pain Assessment and Management
Safe and
Effective Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain 5.25 AMA PRA
Category 1 Credit(s)™
CME on Safe
Prescribing for Pain and Managing Pain Patients Who Abuse Prescription Drugs
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse
Buprenorphine Training
Events
Links from the SAMHSA website to qualified training to prescribe buprenorphine
in office-based treatment of opiate addiction.
Resources
National
Institute on Drug Abuse
American
Society of Addiction Medicine
Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration
Office of
National Drug Control Policy
Partnership for
Drug-Free Kids
News
New
Prescription Regs Official; What You Need to Know, December 12,
2014
Prescription
Monitoring and Drug Control Program Advisory (Memo), November 20,
2014
MMS
update on new Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) regulations (Updated 11/21/14)
The Changing
Face of Pain Management: Patients, Opioids, and the Law, October, 2014
Naloxone
Reverses Opioid Overdose, February 2013