Opioid Stewardship in Practice: Safer Prescribing, Non-Opioid Strategies and Harm Reduction Across Care Settings Podcast Series-CME Paid Option-FREE NO CME

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This four-part microlearning session provides practical, case-based guidance to help clinicians deliver safer, more effective pain care across inpatient and outpatient settings. Designed for busy clinicians in rural and community health environments, each module focuses on a real-world scenario to demonstrate how to apply evidence-based opioid stewardship strategies. Topics include safe opioid prescribing and tapering, implementation of multimodal non-opioid therapies, realistic chronic pain management approaches, and overdose risk reduction through harm reduction practices. Together, these sessions offer actionable tools to improve patient safety, optimize function, and support patient-centered care without relying on opioid escalation.

Target Audience
Hospital and clinic providers, nursing and care coordination staff, pharmacists

Learning Objectives

Examine safe opioid prescribing principles, including dose optimization, functional goal-setting, and patient-centered tapering strategies to reduce harm while maintaining therapeutic engagement.
Implement multimodal pain management strategies, prioritizing non-opioid pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches in both inpatient and outpatient settings, including use of ERAS-informed care and resource-conscious interventions.
Assess and mitigate opioid-related risks, including identifying high-risk patients, adjusting treatment plans accordingly, and applying monitoring strategies to prevent adverse events.
Incorporate harm reduction and overdose prevention strategies, including naloxone co-prescribing, patient-centered counseling, and ongoing risk reassessment.

Donald Stader

Dr. Don Stader is a board-certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, who works at Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado. Don is also the founder and Executive Director of The Naloxone Project. He is the founder and past chair of Colorado ACEP's Opioid Task Force, the Editor-in-Chief of COACEP's 2017 Opioid Prescribing & Treatment Guidelines, and the CO's CURE’s guidelines on pain control and opioid stewardship. Don served for over 2 years as the Senior Pain Management & Opioid Policy Physician Adviser for the Colorado Hospital Association and serves on multiple national and local committees addressing the opioid epidemic in Colorado and across the nation. He is the current chair of ACEP’s Pain & Addiction Management Section. He is the Medical Director of the Compass Opioid Stewardship Program, a nationwide initiative to improve pain control, prescribing habits, addiction treatment and opioid stewardship for primary care clinicians.

Rachael Duncan

Rachael Duncan, PharmD, BCPS, BCCP, is a Colorado-based clinical pharmacist board-certified in pharmacotherapy and critical care pharmacy. She has spent the past decade focused on policy, advocacy, and educational work surrounding opioid stewardship and addiction treatment at both the state and national level. Rachael is the Chief Clinical Officer of Epifluence, where she is Program Director of the Maternal Overdose Matters (MOMs+) Initiative and Associate Director of The Naloxone Project (TNP). She leads several educational and quality improvement initiatives focused on helping hospitals and health systems build addiction treatment infrastructure, with a special focus on rural and frontier communities. She is the author and editor of multiple state- and nation-wide guidelines around opioid stewardship, alternatives to opioids (ALTO) for pain management, and MOUD for addiction treatment, championed ALTO and MOUD across Colorado EDs with the Colorado Hospital Association, and published the first peer-reviewed paper on ALTOs in the ED. Rachael’s clinical experience is in ED and hospital pharmacy.

No CME is available with this course.

This material was prepared by Compass Healthcare Collaborative (Compass)

Fees are charged solely for individuals seeking Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. All educational materials are provided at no cost and are freely accessible regardless of CME participation. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Iowa Medical Society (IMS). Compass is accredited by the IMS to provide continuing medical education for physicians.