Title: DEA Pain Management and Pharmacokinetics

Speakers: Dr. Leena Dutta and Dr. Alix Schnibben

Disclosures: Dr. Dutta - none

Dr. Schnibben - speakers bureau: GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceutical vaccines

Objectives:

- Review history of opioids

- Define pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of opioids

- Understand different types of pain and how to assess

- Consider when to manage pain with non-pharmacologic

- Recite how to use the WHO ladder to start pharmacologic management of pain

- Understand the difference between tolerance, dependence, pseudo-addiction and addiction