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Inheriting Patients on Long Term Opioids: A Toolkit

Opioids and Chronic Pain: A Guide for Primary Care Providers

The Center for Innovation in Academic Detailing on Opioids is excited to announce a new edition of both the California and National versions.

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Included in this revision are two new topics:

Buprenorphine overlap initiation
Benzodiazepines with opioids

Other Highlights Include:

New content on non-opioid pharmacologic treatment of chronic pain
Updates to the controlled substance monitoring map in the national version
New recommendations based on the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain

“Primary care management of long-term opioid therapy.”

This article was written as a narrative summary of the guidebook and emphasizes the best practices in caring for patients who have often been ignored and stigmatized in healthcare settings as a result of their opioid use.