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Impacting the Opioid Crisis: Prevention, Education, and Practice for Non-Prescribing Providers (Coursera)

This course will empower non-prescribing providers to directly impact the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States through increased knowledge and tools that will transform practice and policies. The course will inform you about the opioid epidemic and provide information and research about evidence-based strategies that are focused on [...]

How To Taper Patients Off Of Chronic Opioid Therapy (edX)

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How To Taper Patients Off Of Chronic Opioid Therapy (edX)
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This activity will enable health care providers to recognize when risks of chronic opioid therapy outweigh benefits, and how to safely and compassionately taper patients down or off of chronic opioid therapy (including the use of buprenorphine to make this transition). A real life patient case scenario will be [...]

Impacting the Opioid Crisis: Prevention, Education, and Practice for Non-Prescribing Providers (edX)

Self Paced
Impacting the Opioid Crisis: Prevention, Education, and Practice for Non-Prescribing Providers (edX)
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This course will empower non-prescribing providers to directly impact the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States through increased knowledge and tools that will transform practice and policies. This course will empower non-prescribing providers to directly impact the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States through increased knowledge and [...]

The Opioid Crisis in America (edX)

Learn about the opioid epidemic in the United States, including information about treatment and recovery from opioid addiction. On average, 130 Americans die every day from an overdose of opioids, the class of drugs that includes heroin, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, and fentanyl. Around 70% of all opioid overdose deaths [...]