In the second episode of this two-part series, chiropractor Dr. Albert Scales explains how he contacts and builds rapport with a prescribing health care professional to collaboratively help a patient with an opioid dependency.

Tune in to hear how he coordinates care to help their shared patient safely taper their use of opioids to treat their neuromusculoskeletal (spine, muscle, joint, and related nervous system) pain, while staying within the chiropractor’s scope of practice.

Dr. Scales also discusses when and how to use OCA’s Opioid and Pain Reduction Collaborative’s tools, including the Manual Therapy as an Evidence-Based Referral for Musculoskeletal Pain Clinical Tool developed with the Centre for Effective Practice (CEP). (22 minutes)