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Moving into the Post-Opioid Chronic Pain Treatment Era: Opportunities and Challenges
by
William Becker, MD
Seminar date: 6/2/2020
Description: In this presentation, Dr. Becker will cover the following learning objectives from both clinical innovation and research perspectives:
Understand management strategies for when harm of long-term opioid therapy outweighs benefit in chronic pain
Describe novel use of buprenorphine in such instances
Explore testing and implementing non-pharmacologic approaches to chronic pain management
