Best Evidence Webinar: Think Twice! The (lack of) evidence for opioid analgesics to treat minor acute and chronic pain

18 May 2022 Best Evidence Webinar: Think Twice! The (lack of) evidence for opioid analgesics to treat minor acute and chronic pain

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Dr Rita McCracken is a full-service family doctor and researcher living as an uninvited visitor on the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations. She is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice at UBC and active member of the Therapeutics Initiative. She studies the availability of primary care in BC and reliable ways to measure changes in that availability. Her other research work includes assessing the effects of too much medication and effective methods to deprescribe those excessive medicines. She chose medicine as a second career after 10 years working in Human Resources, finished med school at the University of Calgary in 2006 and her doctoral studies at UBC in 2018.

DATE: Wednesday, May 18, 2022

TIME: 12:00 – 13:00 Pacific Time PDT [convert to your local time]

CME CREDITS: MainPro+/MOC Section 1 credits: 1.0. You must attend the webinar and complete the evaluation in order to receive your certificate.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to:

1. Understand definitions of “opioid-naïve” and “opioid sparing”;
2. Describe the quality of evidence for the efficacy of opioid analgesic use for non-cancer pain and addiction risk prediction tools;
3. Describe opioid-sparing approaches;
4. Describe the potential barriers to audit and feedback tools regarding safe prescribing of opioids, in light of the toxic drug supply.