Opioid Risk Management Tools and Tips

This pocket guide is designed to provide health professionals with basic guidance, tools, and resources for identifying patients who may be at risk for opioid misuse and effectively managing the risk of abuse, addiction, and diversion.

List of contents

1. Principles of Responsible Opioid Prescribing; 1. Documentation; 3. Defining Addiction, Physical Dependence, Tolerance, and Diversion; 4. Selection of Opioid Analgesic; 5. Tools to Guide Decision-Making, Stratify Risk, and Structure Therapy; 6. Opioid-Specific Screening Tools; 7. Managing the Risk of Abuse, Addiction, and Diversion; 8. Urine Drug Testing (UDT); 9. Assessing Aberrant Drug-Taking Behaviors; 10. Assessing Outcomes of Opioid Therapy; 11. Documentation Tools in Long-Term Opioid Therapy; 12. Legal/Regulatory Materials and Resources on the Use of Controlled Substances to Treat Pain

Product details

• Authors: Perry Fine, Steven Passik, Howard Smith, Howard/ Fine Smith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2008
• EAN: 9780195378962
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537896-2
• Dimensions: 95 mm x 178 mm x 6 mm