90 Minute Workshop

Educational Programs, Workshops, Seminars, New Idea Session, and Small Group Discussions

E-003 - Collaboration: Essential to Reducing Opioid Prescribing

Presenter(s)

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  Clark Stanford, D.D.S., PhD

  University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
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  Paul Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH

  University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
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  Jayne Reuben, PhD

  Texas A&M University College of Dentistry
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  Amerian Sones, D.M.D., M.S.

  Texas A & M University College of Dentistry

The escalating opioid crisis has mobilized health care professionals and organizations to implement safe opioid practices. Increases in mandatory opioid education have resulted in a need for continuing education (CE) courses to be developed. With limited time available in the dental curriculum, CE departments can serve as a catalyst for positive change in this destructive national epidemic. By collaborating with health care professionals, CE departments can facilitate a multi-tiered, interprofessional approach to education. With the goal of reducing opioid prescribing, an Opioid tool-kit provides new and established dental providers with a collaborative way to address this epidemic.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe effective learning strategies needed to engage dental professionals and students to actively play a role in addressing the opioid crisis.
• Recognize the important role of collaboration between dental professionals in a multi- factorial solution for this crisis.
• Identify the signs and symptoms of commonly abused prescription and non-prescription drugs and develop methods of drug protocol implementation and guidelines for your school or office.