The guidelines issued by CDC, leaving much to be desired, have become the platform on which many states have built their responses to the public health problem of opioid misuse and abuse. I look forward to sharing some perspective...and how the prescribing clinician can positively react.
MONTCLAIR, N.J. (PRWEB) April 09, 2019
PAINWeekEnd on May 4 at the Hilton Raleigh North Hills, 3415 Wake Forest Road in North Carolina, will be a timely full day program providing busy clinicians and allied healthcare practitioners with 6.0 hours of relevant, practical instruction in the management of chronic pain.
In November of last year, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced a series of new tools to improve prescribers’ and pharmacists’ ability to identify patients at risk for opioid abuse and misuse. The state’s Department of Health and Human Services has introduced a digital gateway that provides instant access to the NC Controlled Substance Reporting System, and has integrated this information with NarxCare, a tool that provides analytics and clinical resources for risk assessment and patient support. The Department has also introduced the North Carolina Opioid Action Plan, a multipronged initiative that encompasses prescription and illicit drug reduction, as well as improved community awareness and participation, increased access to naloxone, and expanding treatment and recovery-oriented systems of care. Going beyond prescribing guidelines is key to balancing response to the opioid crisis with the needs of patients in pain, a topic that will be explored at PAINWeekEnd Raleigh. Gary W. Jay, MD, FAAPM, is Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a longtime member of the PAINWeek and PAINWeekEnd faculty. At PAINWeekEnd Raleigh, Dr. Jay will be presenting “Year of the Locusts: The Impact of the CDC Guidelines on Practitioners and Patients.” He commented: “The guidelines issued by CDC, leaving much to be desired, have become the platform on which many states have built their responses to the public health problem of opioid misuse and abuse. I look forward to sharing some perspective, with the patients primarily in mind, on some of the significant unintended consequences of this regulatory, more than medical/clinical landscape, and how the prescribing clinician can positively react.”
Other courses to be offered at PAINWeekEnd Raleigh include Neck and Upper Extremity Pain Syndromes; 3's Company: COX-2 Inhibitors, Medicinal Marijuana, and Opioid Prescribing; Precise Prescribing: Applying the Science of Pain to Treatment Decisions; Migraine and More; and Back Pain: It's All About the Diagnosis. Commercially supported activities—addressing a range of product, disease state, and medical information topics—will also be presented.
For more information about this or other regional conferences, and to register for $129, go to the https://www.painweek.org/conferences/painweekend/raleigh-nc-2019-conference website. BONUS: PAINWeekEnd registrants may register for the 2019 PAINWeek National Conference, September 3-7, in Las Vegas, for $200 off the regular online published price.
PAINWeekEnd is provided by Global Education Group. About Global Education Group:
Global Education Group focuses on producing partnership-based CME for healthcare practitioners. The Global team works with a select group of medical education companies, associations, academic institutions and healthcare facilities to develop and accredit live healthcare conferences and workshops as well as online activities. With each partnership or joint providership, Global brings accreditation expertise, project management excellence and grant funding intelligence. Based in Littleton, Colo., Global has accreditation with commendation from the ACCME. Global also holds accreditations to offer continuing education for nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dietitians, dentists and psychologists. Global is a division of Ultimate Medical Academy.