Pharmacist Law | Opioids | Pain Management Written 1 credit hour

Screening opioid prescriptions for “red flags” is challenging. This course examines an approach to screen opioid prescriptions for legitimacy, identify the risk of diversion, and either resolve suspicions or justify the denial to fill the prescription when they can’t be resolved.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this knowledge-based CPE course, pharmacists should be able to:
1. Discuss the responsibility of pharmacists to honor valid opioid prescriptions, as well as the correlative responsibility to decline invalid opioid prescriptions.
2. Explain how the concept of red flags can be used to identify concerns about opioid prescription legitimacy.
3. Describe a program to screen opioid prescriptions, identify the risk of diversion that they present, and manage that risk when appropriate.

Faculty

David Brushwood, RPh, JD, FAPhA

Senior Lecturer, The University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy
Pharmacy Law Content Developer, CEimpact

Disclosures:

David Brushwood has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

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