OVERVIEW

Prescribing Controlled Substances, Drug Diversion, and Best Practices is organized by CEUfast, Inc.. This course has been approved for a maximum of 3 Contact Hours including 3 Advanced Pharmacology Hours.

Last Updated: 2/25/2024
This course will be updated or discontinued on or before Tuesday, August 3, 2027

Outcomes:
92% of participants will understand the Federal and State laws regarding controlled substance prescribing and monitoring.

Objectives:
After completing this continuing education course, the participant will be able to:

Discuss the accepted best practices for assessing patients’ risk for addiction and misuse of controlled substances.
Identify State and Federal laws applicable to prescribing, managing, and monitoring the controlled substances in their practice.
Obtain the necessary tools to design and implement a suitable direct system of managing, monitoring, and discontinuing controlled substance use for patients’ pain issues.
Document in compliance with State and Federal law.
Discriminate treatment for specific pain types.
Discuss tools for identifying the risk of diversion, addiction, and misuse.
Describe the treatment of patients with acute, sub-acute, and chronic pain for whom nonpharmacological and non-controlled pain medications have not been fully effective.
Access billing codes to get reimbursed for the time spent assessing patients’ risk for addiction, diversion, and misuse of controlled substances.
Identify three ways controlled substances can be diverted.
Explore patient-provider communication.