SGS Webinar

March 31, 2020

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

As the ‘Opioid Crisis’ in America has gained increasing attention among clinicians and the public we have seen both prudent limitation on opioid prescribing practices as well as unnecessary, even harmful, restrictions of patient access to safe and necessary pain management. While older adults may be more prone to some enhanced risk with the use of opioids, they are also less likely to be candidates for alternative treatments. Health outcomes data show they are not among the demographics at highest risk for opioid-related harm or death. Recent guidelines and recommendations promote cautious use of opioids but have been shown to be misapplied as blanket-restrictions on new prescribing, forced dose reductions or shifting pain patients away primary care without continuity of treatment by an available specialist.

Presenter: Dr. Michael Crooks, PharmD.
Medication Safety Technical Advisor for Georgia’s Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, will address the concerns for the safe use of opioids in older adults - both real risks for harm and exaggerated fears that can prevent adequate pain treatment.

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This webinar is free for SGS & GGS Members

Cost for Non-Members: $15.00

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