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Chronic Pain & the Rx Opioid Epidemic - COPE REMS

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News & Resources. Chronic Pain & the Rx Opioid Epidemic. Chronic Pain & the Rx Opioid Epidemic. Chronic Pain and the Rx Opioid Epidemic. Prevalence of Chronic Pain. Chronic pain affects up to one-third of the U.S. population, an estimated 100 million people. And, according to the National Institutes of Health, its prevalence is growing and will likely continue to. The economic cost to society is also high. According to the Institute of Medicine, pain costs society at least $560-$635 billion annually.

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Opioid Prescribing for PTSD and TBI

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News & Resources. PTSD and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) and Opioid Pain Medications. PTSD and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) and Opioid Pain Medications. Did you check for PTSD or mTBI before prescribing opioid pain medications? Up to half of patients with PTSD and up to 95% of people suffering TBI develop chronic pain. PTSD is strongly associated with opioid use and abuse. PTSD and TBI often co-occur and amplify overlapping symptoms. Understand PTSD, mTBI and Chronic Pain. Effective treatment of PTSD can ...

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Critical Issues Affecting the Treatment of Chronic Pain

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News & Resources. Critical Issues Affecting the Treatment of Chronic Pain. Chronic Pain and the Rx Opioid Epidemic. Intensity of Pain: Are we Focused on the Wrong Metric? Chronic Pain Treatment Should Focus on Improving Function and Quality of Life. Tips on How to Safely Taper Patients Off of Prescription Opioids: An Interview with Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD. Potentially deadly drug combinations routinely prescribed in treatment of chronic pain and mental health conditions. PTSD and chronic pain. Lessons fro...

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News - COPE REMS

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News & Resources. News on the Treatment of Chronic Pain. Opioid Prescriptions Drop for the First Time in Two Decades. FDA Toughens Warning Labels for Some Opioid Painkillers. Test Your Knowledge: Avoiding Deadly Combinations with Prescription Opioids. A quick quiz on dangers of mixing common drugs with opioids. COPE Release: Potentially deadly drug combinations routinely prescribed in treatment of chronic pain and mental health conditions. COPE Interview: Prescribing Guidelines:. Surgeon General Discusse...

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News & Resources - COPE REMS

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News & Resources. News & Resources. News & Resources. News & Resources for Safe Opioid Prescribing. Here you will find valuable information, relevant articles and book titles, and a wealth of useful website links, along with other direct links to assessment and training tools. You can also access many of these resources from the COPE-REMS course itself. News on the Treatment of Chronic Pain. COPE CME was an excellent course! Mdash; Provider with the U.S. Air Force.

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Potentially Deadly Drug Combinations -- COPE-REMS

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News & Resources. Press Release: August 5, 2015. Press Release: August 5, 2015. For more information, please contact:. COPE for Chronic Pain CME. 206685.5181 / cope@uw.edu. Potentially deadly drug combinations routinely prescribed. In treatment of chronic pain and mental health conditions:. Study finds that rate of prescribing for prescription pain medications has slowed,. While dangerous multi-drug use has not. This is important, he says, because most prescription opioid deaths commonly involve alcohol,...

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Washington State Opioid Guideline

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News & Resources. New Washington State Opioid Guideline. New Washington State Opioid Guideline. New Washington State Opioid Guideline Charts Fresh Course for Treatment of Pain. An Interview with David J. Tauben, MD, FACP:. Co-Chair of the 2015 AMDG Opioid Guideline Committee; Chief, University of Washington Division of Pain Medicine; and Director of UW TelePain, a COPE-supported weekly telemedicine program on chronic pain. An update of the Washington guideline in 2010 focused on treating patients with ch...

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Partners - COPE REMS

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News & Resources. Partners are central to COPE’s work, and essential to achieving its mission. The COPE program collaborates with academic institutions, primary care medical associations, and the private sector to educate healthcare providers about the effective and safe treatment of chronic pain. COPE partners help to develop, review and disseminate valuable CME content, and COPE shares the research findings of its partners with the community at large. Midwest Clinicians’ Network.

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About COPE-REMS REMS Opioid Training for Prescribers

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News & Resources. COPE educates healthcare providers on how to safely treat and manage the care of people with chronic pain in order to improve patients’ lives and end the prescription opioid epidemic. COPE also provides the latest guidelines on safer opioid prescribing: how to start, switch or discontinue opioid therapies; what dangerous drug-drug interactions to avoid; and how to safely handle dosing among them. Choose the course that best suits your schedule and learning style, including the flagship,...

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Online COPE-REMS Continued Medical Education Opioid

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News & Resources. COPE CME is offered in three different formats*:. An online, self-paced tutorial that awards up to 4. AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Mdash; increasing your effectiveness in treating patients with chronic pain. Available at no cost through March 31, 2016. AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Wednesdays, 12.00pm-1.30pm PST. COPE Program Planning Committee. Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UW; Clinician, UW Center for Pain Relief. The COPE approach is one of the...