Clinical Practice Guidelines for Opioid Therapy

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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- Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (September 2019). Best Practices in Prescribing Opioids. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine Quality and Patient Safety Division, 1-20.

Update
Responsible Controlled Substance and Opioid Prescribing

- Horn, D. B., Vu, L., Porter, B. R., & Sarantopoulos, K. (2023). Responsible Controlled Substance and Opioid Prescribing. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Carpenter, R. W., Lane, S. P., Bruehl, S., & Trull, T. J. (2019). Concurrent and lagged associations of prescription opioid use with pain and negative affect in the daily lives of chronic pain patients. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 87(10), 872–886.

Hossain, M. A., Asamoah-Boaheng, M., Badejo, O. A., Bell, L. V., Buckley, N., Busse, J. W., Campbell, T. S., Corace, K., Cooper, L. K., Flusk, D., Garcia, D. A., Iorio, A., Lavoie, K. L., Poulin, P. A., Skidmore, B., & Rash, J. A. (2020). Prescriber adherence to guidelines for chronic noncancer pain management with opioids: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Psychology, 39(5), 430–451

López-Martínez, A. E., Sainero-Tirado, G., Esteve, R., Reyes-Pérez, Á., Ruiz-Párraga, G. T., de la Vega, R., Serrano-Ibáñez, E. R., & Ramírez-Maestre, C. (2022). Does pain catastrophizing and distress intolerance mediate the relationship between PTSD and prescribed opioid misuse in people with chronic noncancer pain? Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication.

Online Continuing Education QUESTION 8
What Select Population might be at higher risk than other patients for opioid use disorder? To select and enter your answer go to CEU Test.