
Online Courses for Opioid Prescribing

Applying CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids: An Online Training Series for Healthcare Providers. Sign up to learn how to apply CDC’s recommendations in your clinical setting through interactive patient scenarios, videos, knowledge checks, tips, and resources. Check back often for updates and new courses. CE credits available.
On-Demand Webinars. These seven webinars provide informative, case-based content that demonstrates and instructs participants about how the 12 recommendations of the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain can be incorporated and applied in a primary care practice setting. CE credits available.
Health.gov: Pathways to Safer Opioid Use is an interactive training that promotes the appropriate, safe, and effective use of opioids to manage chronic pain. This course is based on the recommendations in the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention (ADE Action Plan). CPE or CME credit is available.
ACP: SAFE Opioid Prescribing: Strategies. Assessment. Fundamentals. Education. This recorded course provides clinical insights from the SAFE Opioid Prescribing Blueprint. CME credit and ABIM Medical Knowledge MOC points are available upon completion of all six modules and by correctly answering at least seven of 12 medical knowledge questions.
Pri-Med: SAFE Opioid Prescribing. This curriculum is designed to increase prescribers’ understanding of appropriate patient assessment and prescribing practices that can help reduce misuse, abuse, and overdose deaths associated with ER/LA opioid analgesics. Credits available: 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ or 2.80 AANP, including 1.25 AANP Pharm.
AMA: Primer on the Opioid Morbidity and Mortality Crisis: What Every Prescriber Should Know. Learn about prescription opioid-related morbidity and mortality, factors influencing opioid-related harm, and what steps you can take to promote the safe use of this important class of medications. Credits available: 0.75 Credits, AMA, AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.
Surgeon General: “Turn the Tide” campaign to end the opioid crisis. Read the letter, take the pledge, be the solution.