New Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing and What They Mean for Elders with Chronic Pain

Manu Thakral, PHD, NP

Research Associate

Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:

• Describe what is known about the effectiveness and risks of long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain.
• Discuss how to determine when opioids should be initiated or continued for chronic pain and when they should be discontinued.
• Describe strategies that can be used to assess risk and address harm associated with opioid use.

[From the Winter 2018 Geriatric Healthcare Lecture Series]