TY - JOUR
KW - Analgesics, Opioid/therapeutic use
KW - Chronic Pain/drug therapy
KW - Drug Overdose/prevention & control
KW - Drug Prescriptions
KW - Education, Medical, Continuing/methods
KW - Humans
KW - New Mexico
KW - Opioid-Related Disorders/prevention & control
KW - Pain Management
KW - Public Health
AU - J. G. Katzman
AU - G. D. Comerci
AU - M. Landen
AU - L. Loring
AU - S. M. Jenkusky
AU - S. Arora
AU - S. Kalishman
AU - L. Marr
AU - C. Camarata
AU - D. Duhigg
AU - J. Dillow
AU - E. Koshkin
AU - D. E. Taylor
AU - C. M. Geppert
A1 - 
AB - Chronic pain and opioid addiction are 2 pressing public health problems, and prescribing clinicians often lack the skills necessary to manage these conditions. Our study sought to address the benefits of a coalition of an academic medical center pain faculty and government agencies in addressing the high unintentional overdose death rates in New Mexico. New Mexico's 2012-2013 mandated chronic pain and addiction education programs studied more than 1000 clinicians. Positive changes were noted in precourse and postcourse surveys of knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitudes. Controlled substance dispensing data from the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy also demonstrated safer prescribing. The total morphine and Valium milligram equivalents dispensed have decreased continually since 2011. There was also a concomitant decline in total drug overdose deaths.
BT - American Journal of Public Health
C5 - Opioids & Substance Use; Education & Workforce
CP - 8
CY - United States
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301881
IS - 8
JF - American Journal of Public Health
N2 - Chronic pain and opioid addiction are 2 pressing public health problems, and prescribing clinicians often lack the skills necessary to manage these conditions. Our study sought to address the benefits of a coalition of an academic medical center pain faculty and government agencies in addressing the high unintentional overdose death rates in New Mexico. New Mexico's 2012-2013 mandated chronic pain and addiction education programs studied more than 1000 clinicians. Positive changes were noted in precourse and postcourse surveys of knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitudes. Controlled substance dispensing data from the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy also demonstrated safer prescribing. The total morphine and Valium milligram equivalents dispensed have decreased continually since 2011. There was also a concomitant decline in total drug overdose deaths.
PP - United States
PY - 2014
SN - 1541-0048; 0090-0036
SP - 1356
EP - 1362
EP - 
T1 - Rules and values: a coordinated regulatory and educational approach to the public health crises of chronic pain and addiction
T2 - American Journal of Public Health
TI - Rules and values: a coordinated regulatory and educational approach to the public health crises of chronic pain and addiction
U1 - Opioids & Substance Use; Education & Workforce
U2 - 24922121
U3 - 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301881
VL - 104
VO - 1541-0048; 0090-0036
Y1 - 2014
ER -