Pain and Symptom Management for People with Serious Illness in the Context of the Opioid Epidemic: A Workshop

Pain and Symptom Management for People with Serious Illness in the Context of the Opioid Epidemic: A Workshop is organized by The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (HMD-NASEM) and will be held on Nov 29, 2018 at National Academy of Sciences, Washington, Dist of Col, United States of America.

Course Objectives:
• The Patient/Family Perspective
• Impact of limitations in access to opioids on those with serious illness and their caregivers
• Disparities in access to prescribed opioids for people with serious illness
• Options for safe removal and disposal of opioids when they are no longer needed
• The Clinician Perspective
• How restrictions on opioid prescribing affect clinicians and their ability to provide high quality care for those with serious illness
• Ways in which clinicians manage the care of seriously ill patients who have comorbid conditions such as cancer and substance use disorder
• The Payer Perspective
• Challenges of striking a balance between access to opioid medications for patients’ pain and symptom management and patient safety and prevention of opioid use disorder
• The Legislative/Policy Perspective Potential impact of regulatory/legislative actions to address the opioid epidemic
• Measures to protect the population of people with serious illness whose pain can only be effectively addressed by opioids
• Strategies to address gaps in the evidence base on pain management for people with serious illness

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.