Pain Management and the Intersection of Pain and Opioid Use Disorder

Course overview

This course examines pain management and ways to reduce chances of the patient developing OUD by using other methods for treating pain. It includes: the scope of the problem of pain, opioid analgesics, non-opioid pharmacologic treatments, interventional pain therapies, non-pharmacologic treatments, differences in pain experiences and treatment effectiveness among sub-populations, and the intersection between pain and opioid use disorder.