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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Recognize 3 demographic and social factors that have influenced the increased use of opioids for nonmedical purposes.
  2. Identify 2 factors that contribute to sex-related variations in opioid abuse and addiction.
  3. List 3 strategies that health care providers and health care systems can incorporate to help decrease opioid abuse.

Disclosures

The authors, faculty and all staff in a position to control the content of this CME activity have disclosed that they and their spouses/life partners (if any) have no financial relationships with, or financial interests in, any commercial companies pertaining to this educational activity.

Price: $49.00

Credits:

  • ACCME 1.5 CME

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Lippincott Continuing Medical Education Institute, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Planner
Professions: Physician
Test Code: TPM1217
Published: December 2017
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Topics in Pain Management
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Ms. Samantha M. Pruden and Angela Starkweather, PhD, ACNP-BC, CNRN, FAAN
Categories: Pain Management
Specialties: Addiction Medicine, Anesthesiology, Internal Medicine, Pain Management
Topics: Opioid Abuse