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ForwardFlorida’s Opioid Crisis: Real Stories of Addiction
Florida is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Under new Florida legislation, controlling the opioid abuse epidemic seems to be at odds with maintaining appropriate pain control in patients with true indications for opiate therapy. This course addresses House Bill 21 and CMS legislation and the debate about whether patients who truly require opiates for pain control will experience additional difficulty in obtaining prescriptions in an atmosphere that already stigmatizes their use.
Target Audience
Physicians, Physician Assistants, Medical Students, Nurse Practitioners and other interested healthcare professionals.
Learning Objectives
- Describe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) legislation on prescribing controlled substances.
- Discuss potential ethical challenges in appropriate pain management after House Bill 21 and the new CMS legislation.
- Outline process changes that Baptist Health has implemented to maintain appropriate pain management and education for all of South Florida.
Thomas J. Wolfel, Pharm.D., BCCCP
Emergency Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Baptist Hospital of Miami
Justin Volpe
Forensic Certified Recovery Peer Specialist
Community Health South Florida
Thomas J. Wolfel, Pharm.D., BCCCP, faculty of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Justin Volpe, faculty of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Ana Viamonte-Ros, M.D., MPH, conference director of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship to disclose with ineligible companies.*
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.
*Ineligible companies -- Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 General certificate of attendance
- 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
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