Prescribing Opioids

Includes objective, evidence-based information on the management of chronic pain. Assists healthcare providers in all aspects of patient care, including diagnosis, treatment, and followup.

Provides recommendations on how to properly use and prescribe opioid medication for both acute and chronic pain.

Details evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for use of chronic opioid therapy in adults with chronic noncancer pain.

Offers clinical recommendations for primary care clinicians for prescribing opioids in all pain phases, for perioperative pain, for chronic noncancer pain, and for special populations. Covers reducing or discontinuing chronic opioid analgesic therapy, and recognition and treatment of opioid use disorder.

Summarizes the evidence-based guidelines for management of chronic pain most relevant to clinicians.

Includes Federal resources for rural communities organized in 26 overarching categories to help address substance use disorder and opioid misuse

Describes how to more effectively and safely manage patients seeking care for acute pain and encourages the clinician to carefully consider unintended consequences (abuse, misuse, overdose, addiction, and diversion) when prescribing opioids.

Assists primary care providers in determining if an opioid taper is necessary for a specific patient, in performing the taper, and in providing followup and support during the taper.

Describes best practices of routine urine drug testing as part of an overall treatment plan that includes chronic opioid prescribing.

Describes development and validation of a low-literacy, English-language opioid contract.