The Opioid Crisis and Its Implications for Pain Management is organized by HomeCEU.
Course Description:
This course looks at the scope of the opioid epidemic in the US, including factors that contributed to this problem. How opioids work and how they lead to addiction is addressed. The ethics of pain management in light of the opioid epidemic is examined as is recent changes in the management of pain in response to the opioid epidemic.
Course Goals:
The goal of this course is the understand the scope of and contributors to the opioid epidemic and to look at changes in pain management that have been recommended as a consequence.
Course Objectives:
• Recognize the scope of the opioid epidemic in the US
• List several contributors to the opioid epidemic
• Identify how different classes of pain medications work
• Identify the basic physiology of opioid addiction
• List the consequences of inadequately managed pain
• List recommended changes in pain management in response to the opioid epidemic
• Identify the basics of the Neuromatrix Model of Pain and how they affect pain management
• List several non-pharmacological ways to manage pain
• List several risk factors for opioid abuse