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CME Outfitters, LLC

  • Acute Pain
  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Opioid-Related Disorders
  • Pain
  • Pain Management

From Pain to Progress: Guiding Providers Through Opioid Stewardship

Chronic, subacute, and acute pain remain among the most common and complex challenges encountered in clinical practice. Inadequate pain management contributes to diminished quality of life, impaired function, and increased healthcare utilization. At the same time, the ongoing opioid crisis underscores the need for safe, evidence-based approaches to prescribing and monitoring opioid therapy. Clinicians must be equipped to recognize the multifactorial biopsychosocial influences on pain, apply validated assessment tools, and incorporate national guidelines to balance effective pain relief with patient safety. Enhanced provider competency in multimodal pain management, patient counseling, and identification of opioid misuse risk including application of DSM-5 criteria for opioid use disorder (OUD) is essential to optimizing outcomes while minimizing harm. In this CME Outfitters Journal Club, expert faculty will provide their perspectives on key aspects of the FDA s Opioid Analgesic REMS Education Blueprint for Health Care Providers Involved in the Treatment and Monitoring of Patients with Pain. Focus will be on bringing the concepts from this document into daily practice including the latest evidence on including strategies for identifying the physiologic biopsychosocial factors that influence pain, utilizing pain assessment tools that reinforce approaches to the appropriate management of pain, implementing strategies from the 2022 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids into the development of safe and effective pain management plans, and other valuable skills for improving the treatment of patients suffering from chronic pain.

Credit & MOC Details

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Credit types

This is a journal-based activity. Credit is earned after completing the required reading and assessment; the amount shown is the provider-reported available credit.

IPCE CreditsUp to 1 creditAAPA Category 1 Credit™Up to 1 creditAMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Up to 1 creditDentistryUp to 1 creditNursingUp to 1 creditPharmacyUp to 1 creditPsychologyUp to 1 credit

MOC types

ABIM — Medical KnowledgeUp to 1 point

FDA REMS

Yes

Qualifies for MIPS

Yes

Target Specialties

Faculty 2

All faculty

Pricing

Free

Reported to ACCME by the provider

  • Journal-based
  • Credit · Up to 1 credit
  • MOC · Up to 1 point
  • Commercial Support
  • Released
    Nov 5, 2025
  • Last day to claim credit
    Dec 21, 2026 2 months left

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