{"id":3818,"date":"2016-07-18T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kbicblog.com\/blog\/pharmacy\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2016-09-14T18:28:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T23:28:58","slug":"prescriber-education-is-the-key-to-stemming-prescription-opioid-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kbicblog.com\/pharmacy\/industry-news\/prescriber-education-is-the-key-to-stemming-prescription-opioid-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescriber Education is the Key to Stemming Prescription Opioid Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prescriber<\/a>The education of primary care providers and patients at the starting point of opioid therapy, as well as of surgeons and other prescribers, is crucial to curbing the current global opioid abuse epidemic, according to Adam M. Kaye, PharmD, FASCP, FCPhA, a professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of the Pacific Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.<\/p>\n

Writing in Current Pain and Headache Reports<\/em><\/a>, Kaye and colleagues said that technologies meant to make it more difficult to abuse opioids\u2014developing pills that produce unpleasant side effects if broken, crushed, or injected\u2014will likely have limited effectiveness in stemming the global epidemic of opioid abuse and are no substitute for education.<\/p>\n

\u201cEducation is the foremost strategy,\u201d Kaye said. \u201cWe must educate primary care providers, surgeons, pharmacists, and other health professionals, as well as patients. That education must take place prior to the starting point of opioid therapy\u2014and it needs to be independent of the pharmaceutical industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the review article, the authors stated the following:<\/p>\n