Prevention of Substance Use Disorder

Describes the importance of calculating the total daily dosage of opioids and how it should be calculated.

Explains the risks and side effects of prescription opioids. Provides information on other options to manage pain that should be discussed with the healthcare provider and additional instructions on what to do if prescribed opioids for pain.

Explains whether opioid pain medications are safe for women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. Provides information about whether these patients should stop taking pain medication if they find out they are pregnant and whether breastfeeding women should continue medication.

Helps clinicians better identify the presence of opioid abuse or dependence in patients with chronic pain.

Guides healthcare professionals through an initial assessment of patient pain. Includes diagrams of the human body to help patients locate the pain they experience, as well as questions to prompt the patient to describe the intensity, quality, causes, effects, and contributing factors of the pain.

Assesses the location and severity of pain and its impact on functioning.

Uses a simple prognostic questionnaire to help clinicians identify modifiable risk factors (biomedical, psychological, and social) for back pain disability. Stratifies patients with the resulting score as low, medium, or high risk and matches patients with a treatment package for each category.

Uses a 20-item instrument administered in an interview format to track behaviors characteristic of addiction related to prescription opioid medications in chronic pain populations. The instrument is scored based on participant responses, interviewer observations of displayed behaviors, and information gathered from medical chart review.

Provides a score indicating the severity of dependence on opioids using a 5-item questionnaire.

Uses a 17-item self-assessment to identify patients with chronic pain taking opioids who have indicators of current aberrant drug-related behaviors.