Impacting the Opioid Crisis: Prevention, Education, and Practice for Non-Prescribing Providers
Completed by Ricardo Pires
March 25, 2025
17 hours (approximately)
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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.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Injury Prevention
- Category: Health Policy
- Category: Public Policies
- Category: Substance Abuse
- Category: Treatment Planning
- Category: Pain Management
- Category: Preventative Care
- Category: Public Health
- Category: Medical Prescription
- Category: Rehabilitation
- Category: Pharmacology
- Category: Epidemiology
