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      • Pharmacists & safe opioid prescribing
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      • Type of pain & timing of therapy
      • The opioid trial
      • Long term prescribing
      • Tapering & stopping
      • Dose equivalents & changing opioids
      • Checklist for prescribers
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      • Substance misuse: pain management in palliative care
      • Pain emerging when methadone for OST is tapered
    • Information for patients
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      • Taking opioids for pain
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  • Good practice in prescribing

  • Opioids & the law

  • Writing opioid prescriptions

  • Record keeping

  • Improving patient safety & minimising harms

  • Reporting adverse effects

  • Non-medical prescribing

  • Pharmacists & safe opioid prescribing

  • About pain

  • Challenges of long term pain management

  • Assessment of long term pain

  • The role of medications in pain management

  • A stepped approach to pain prescribing

  • Patient context

  • Opioids & acute pain management

  • Opioids for pain management in palliative care

  • Opioids for long term pain

  • Side effects of opioids

  • Long term harms of opioids

  • Current UK data on opioid misuse

 

A structured approach to opioid prescribing Opioids & Addiction Information for patients
  • Patient assessment

  • Type of pain & timing of therapy

  • The opioid trial

  • Long term prescribing

  • Tapering & stopping

  • Dose equivalents & changing opioids

  • Checklist for prescribers

  • Terminology & prevalence

  • Diagnosis, identification & risk populations

  • Treatment & prevention

  • Patients with substance misuse

  • Substance misuse: acute pain management

  • Substance misuse: chronic pain management

  • Substance misuse: pain management in palliative care

  • Pain emerging when methadone for OST is tapered

  • About pain for patients

  • Thinking about opioid treatment for pain

  • Taking opioids for pain

 

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