Upcoming CDC Webinar Highlights Agency’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain

The next CDC webinar, “Dosing and Titrating Opioids,” will be held on Wednesday, August 17, 2016, at 2 PM (ET) as part of a free continuing education (CE) webinar series for health care providers on the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. The webinar will be available as a live webinar broadcast, and CE credit may be earned after participating. The contents of the August 17 webinar will include a case study to guide clinicians through safe opioid prescribing practices. Clinicians will learn about the association between opioid dosage and opioid therapy benefits and harms.

The CDC website contains information for participating in this webinar. Health care providers who seek to earn CE credit will need to register online. The passcode to participate is 3377346, and the conference/meeting number is PW8523118.

The last webinar on this topic, “Assessing Benefits and Harms of Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain,” was held on Wednesday, August 3, 2016. All CDC webinars are archived on the CDC website.