What you will learn

• Explain the factors that contributed to the current opioid crisis.

• Understand the pathophysiology of pain and its treatment, including what opioids are and how they work.

• Understand strategies to reduce unintended use and misuse, like prescribing guidelines, surveillance, safe disposal, and intervention messaging.

• Identify what strategies and tools you can employ to impact the safe use of opioids across clinical care settings and with a variety of populations.