The nitty-gritty of medication prescribing in a patient population that often feels voiceless or powerless in their quest for pain relief while also battling addiction.

Now more than ever, the opioid crisis and the overwhelming need to treat chronic pain are colliding. It used to just be we worried about opioid use in substance use disorder (SUD) patients, but now even some nonopioid pain medications have become drugs of abuse or have been found to potentially increase the risk for opioid overdose. In addition to providing naloxone education and counseling, learn how to balance the PROs and CONs, or risks vs benefits, of using opioids (when appropriate or indicated) as well as nonopioids for patients with active (or historical) SUD. (Recorded at PAINWeek 2019)