- Prescription Drug Abuse 30min
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Description
Adequate pain management is an important aspect of providing quality patient; however medical providers are challenged with balancing legitimate use and the increasing trend of prescription drug abuse. Inappropriate use of prescription drugs is the nation’s fastest-growing drug problem. The number of prescription drug misuse and abuse related deaths now exceed deaths due to motor vehicle accidents. This 30 minute webinar will discuss the startling facts and statistics about prescription drug abuse and the ethical challenges that arise with effective pain management.
Learning Objectives
- Identify facts and trends about prescription drug abuse
- Identify drug seeking behaviors
- Identify ways to curb prescription drug abuse
- Identify ethical and legal challenges of pain management
- Understand the ethical dilemma’s and principles associated with pain management
Course Content
Instructor
Beth Cleavenger (PharmD) is a 2012 University of Montana Pharmacy School graduate. She was born and raised in Montana and moved to Arizona in the summer of 2012 to start her pharmacy career. It was this move that would change her life, her health, and the direction of her career forever. In pharmacy school Beth was taught to believe the lie that alternatives to conventional medicine were simply unnecessary and unreliable. She was led to believe that the only medicine and treatments patients could trust were rooted in clinical guidelines and FDA approved drugs. Ironically, after battling a “mysterious” chronic illness for four years it was naturopathic medicine that had saved her life.
Beth was halfway through pharmacy school when her health began to dramatically decline and she wholeheartedly embraced the medical wisdom she thought she had gained. Over the course of three years she went to 7 physicians and 3 specialists only to be dismissed as “normal”. Beth was hopeless, desperate, and on the verge of needing a medical leave of absence from her job. Realizing that she had nothing else to lose, Beth made an appointment to see a naturopathic physician.
At just 27 years old, Beth was battling a severe case of chronic fatigue syndrome, stage III adrenal fatigue, hormone imbalances, and a number of food intolerances. Little by little she has regained her health back with the help of natural supplements, a real-food diet, and even the anti-viral drug, valacyclovir, for her high Epstein-Barr viral load.
This journey has taught Beth more than the value and effectiveness of natural and alternative medicine. It has made her not only a more compassionate pharmacist, but a better one. This experience drives Beth to educate patients, colleagues, and friends on the benefit of integrating both natural and conventional medicine to improve quality of life.
Continuing Education Approvals
Canadian Federation of Aromatherapists (CFA)
0.25 CEU total (up to 0.25 CEU Category B) -Direct ApprovalCollege of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia (CNPBC)
0.5 hour total (up to 0.5 hour Category F - Prescriptive Authority) -Direct ApprovalVermont Office of Professional Regulation (VT OPR)
0.5 hour total (up to 0.5 hour General, up to 0.5 hour Pharmacology) -Direct ApprovalAlliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA)
0.25 CPD total (up to 0.25 CPD Category B) -Assumed ApprovalArizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board (AZ NPMB)
0.5 CME total (up to 0.5 CME General, up to 0.5 CME Pharmacology) -Assumed ApprovalCollege of Naturopathic Doctors of Alberta (CNDA)
0.5 continuing competence credit total -Assumed ApprovalCollege of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia (CNPBC)
0.5 hour total (up to 0.5 hour Category C - Educational Courses) -Assumed ApprovalCollege of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO)
0.5 credit total (up to 0.5 credit Category B) -Assumed ApprovalCouncil for Homeopathic Certification (CHC)
0.5 CEU total (up to 0.5 CEU Category 2) -Assumed ApprovalIdaho Board of Medicine: Naturopathic Medical Board (ID BOM: NMB)
0.5 hour total (up to 0.5 hour General, up to 0.5 hour Pharmacology) -Assumed ApprovalManitoba Naturopathic Association (MNA)
0.5 hour total (up to 0.5 hour Category B) -Assumed ApprovalSaskatchewan Association of Naturopathic Practitioners (SANP)
0.5 hour total (up to 0.5 hour Category C, up to 0.5 hour Category F) -Assumed ApprovalUtah Naturopathic Physician Licensing Board (UT NPLB)
0.5 CE total (up to 0.5 CE General, up to 0.5 CE Pharmacy) -Assumed ApprovalWashington State Department of Health: Board of Naturopathy (WA DOH: BON)
0.5 hour total (up to 0.5 hour Category 2, up to 0.5 hour Category 2 - Pharmacology) -Assumed Approval
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- 0.5 hour on-demand video
- 1 downloadable resource
- Full lifetime access
- Certificate of completion (PDF)
- Certificate available immediately
- CEs / PDAs as outlined
This course is intended for practitioners.