The Minnesota Department of Human Services convened a group of stakeholders to address opioid prescribing in the state through the Opioid Prescribing Improvement Project. The Opioid Prescribing Workgroup produced these 2018 guidelines on opioid prescribing for use by providers Continue reading
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Flip the Script: Discussion Guide for Non-Prescribers
A 4 page guide for non-prescribers about having difficult conversations with patients about pain management and opioids from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign. This guide provides information about the risks of long-term opioid therapy and provides information about understanding acute, post-acute and chronic pain. The guide provides talking points and specific language health care providers can use when talking to their patients and preparing patients to continue the discussion with their prescribing provider.
Flip the Script: Discussion Guide
This 4 page guide from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign centers on health care providers conducting difficult conversations with patients around opioids. This guide provides information about the risks of long-term opioid therapy and provides information about understanding acute, post-acute and chronic pain. It also outlines talking points and specific language health care providers can use when talking to their patients.
Flip the Script: Difficult Conversations
This 4 page guide from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign centers on health care providers and conducting difficult conversations with patients around opioids. The guide covers topics such as tapering opioid dose, pain relief, emerging behavioral health conditions, and concerns about the addiction risk of using opioids and includes sample language providers can use when talking to patients. Continue reading
Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Approach to Acute Pain Management in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
This resource is a guide to treating acute pain in individuals with opioid use disorder seen in the hospital setting. It is one of the protocols and tools developed for Oregon Health & Science University’s Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program which provides addiction medicine consultations to patients treated in the hospital who have a diagnosis of substance use disorder. Continue reading
Comparative Effectiveness of Analgesics To Reduce Acute Pain in the Prehospital Setting
A systematic review prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that evaluated the effectiveness and harms of opioids compared to nonopioid analgesics in the emergency department. Continue reading
Pain Management Resources
This website from the Washington Medical Commission includes resources for Washington physicians and physician assistants on pain management and information about the 2018 Washington state opioid prescribing rules.
Funding Source: Washington Medical Commission
Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment (SHOUT)
This website includes links to 7 webinars that make up the Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment (Project SHOUT) initiative of the California Health Care Foundation. Topics covered in the webinar series include: the case for inpatient opioid agonist therapy; buprenorphine and methadone induction; acute pain and Continue reading
Providers Clinical Support System
The Providers Clinical Support System (PCCS) is a program of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and associated healthcare organizations that provides training and clinical mentoring to primary care providers to help them treat opioid use disorder and manage chronic pain in their practices.
Funding Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Chronic Pain Management
This website provides information for patients and caregivers about what is chronic pain and how patients and their caregivers can optimally manage their pain to improve quality of life.
Funding Source: Arizona Department of Health Services