Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Kentucky had the second highest drug overdose death rate in the US in 2013.
Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
Kentucky Department for Public Health - (Released October 2015)
Health care providers encounter patients seeking prescription or illicit drugs in all work settings and routinely provide 24-hour care to patients in hospital. They are in frequent contact with patients seeking health care who use illicit drugs and face complex clinical and personal situations that require a high level of clinical competence, expertise, and skill. Practitioners are concerned about prescribing opioids because of the problems with addiction and regulatory oversight.
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Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Kentucky had the second highest drug overdose death rate in the U.S. in 2013.
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Drug overdose is a huge problem facing the health care system in Kentucky. Drug overdose deaths are acute poisoning deaths due to prescription or illicit drugs. According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Kentucky had the second highest drug overdose death rate in the U.S. in 2013.
Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center -
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- Expires: Apr 7, 2023
- Cost: Free
Low-threshold medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) clinics represent a key link between episodes of illness driven by opioid use disorder (OUD) and effective management of OUD.
Sharing lessons learned from the roll-out of low-threshold MOUD clinics is needed to improve patient care.
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- Expires: Jul 13, 2022
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KASPER is a controlled substance prescription monitoring system designed to be a source of information to assist practitioners and pharmacists with providing medical and pharmaceutical patient care using controlled substance medications. KASPER also provides an investigative tool for law enforcement and regulatory agencies to assist with authorized reviews and...
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- Other: 1.00
- CDE: 1.00
- CPHCE: 1.00
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- Expires: Sep 19, 2022
- Cost: Free
Health care providers, family members, and friends need to have the skills to prevail over the anger and hopelessness that is felt when dealing with the affliction of addiction by utilizing "great reserves of love
and discipline to investigate what might help...” New York Times
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- CME: 1.50
- CPE: 1.50
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- Other: 1.50
- CDE: 1.50
- CPHCE: 2.00
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- Expires: Sep 16, 2022
- Cost: Free
Because of inadequate provision of addiction treatment in physician practices and referrals to appropriate specialty care, health care professionals need education on the nature of addiction as a chronic brain disease and application of the chronic disease model to this disorder. This training has been approved by KBML as meeting statutory requirements of...
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- Other: 1.00
- CDE: 1.00
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- Expires: Sep 11, 2022
- Cost: Free
Medication treatment for Opioid Use Disorder remains poorly understood such that few affected individuals ever receive these effective FDA-approved medications.
Providers need to know how treatment helps save lives and how they can identify and link patients to treatment.
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- Other: 1.25
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- Expires: Sep 25, 2022
- Cost: Free