Recommended Evidence Based Methodologies for the Management and Prevention of Prescription Drug Misuse

In the appropriate setting it is recommended that graduating providers have operational knowledge of:

(30 min review)

- Diagnosis-Intractability – Risk –Efficacy (DIRE)

- Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- See Core Competency #6

- Provider’s Clinical Support System (PCSS)
- Module: “Motivational Interviewing for Clinical Practice” (45 min)

- Opioid Risk Tool (ORT)

- Safe Prescribing “Universal Precautions”
- See Core Competencies #1 and #2 for recommended education modules to review “universal precautions”

- Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

- Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (SOAPP)

- Screening Tool for Addiction Risk (STAR)