Medication Essentials
Duration: 2 weeks (2-hour sessions each week)
What You'll Learn
- Medications & Chronic Pain: Understand the role of medications as part of an overall chronic pain management approach.
- Informed Decision-Making: Learn why it’s important to set goals, monitor progress, and weigh the benefits and risks when starting, continuing, or stopping medications.
- Medication Education: Review commonly used medications for chronic pain, including potential side effects and safety considerations.
- Key Terms & Concepts: Build your understanding of important medication-related terms such as physical dependence, tolerance, addiction, opioid use disorder, withdrawal, and overdose (opioid poisoning).