Family Planning for Women with Opioid Use Disorder

Family Planning for Women with Opioid Use Disorder

This course describes the complexities of family planning decision making, with a focus on factors that influence family planning for women with opioid use disorder (OUD). Contraceptive effectiveness, stigma, and incorporation of family planning in recovery services...
Understanding Chronic Pain

Understanding Chronic Pain

Maine, along with the U.S. as a whole, has strained under the related epidemics of chronic pain, disability and absence from the workforce, opioid use disorders (OUDs), and OUD-related overdoses. These epidemics peaked in the context of a healthcare system that...
Gabapentinoids in Chronic Pain: Nuts, Bolts and Pearls

Gabapentinoids in Chronic Pain: Nuts, Bolts and Pearls

In this course, Stephanie Nichols, Pharm.D., will review the clinical utility of gabapentin and pregabalin for the treatment of pain. This course will compare and contrast the clinical use of these agents, with a focus on dosing, tolerability, monitoring, and patient...
Making Pain Management Less Painful

Making Pain Management Less Painful

Non-Opioid Psychotropic Medications in the Treatment of Chronic Pain This course reviews evidence-based non-opioid medications in the treatment of chronic pain. It highlights the dosing and adjustment considerations (renal, hepatic, age, DDIs, etc.), compares and...