CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Chronic Pain

Course overview

Physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals must better understand their competing responsibilities related to the prescription of opioids and be able to effectively evaluate all patients for their level of risk for misuse or abuse of opioids. This course reviews the 2016 CDC guidelines for prescribing opioids to patients with chronic non-cancer pain. An expert panel formed to create guidelines for the use of opioids in the treatment of chronic, non-cancer pain concluded that adequate patient risk assessment and risk management for opioid abuse, addiction, and diversion is essential.