NH Doctors, Nurses To Be Trained In Stopping Overprescribing
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gov. Maggie Hassan has announced a series of regional education conferences to train doctors, nurses and pharmacists in stopping drug addiction and abuse, including best practices for preventing overprescribing opioids.
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The first conference will be held on Nov. 13 in Bedford.
The conferences are the result of a partnership including Catholic Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine and the New England High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program.
The program addresses such topics as assessing opioid misuse risk; counseling patients on opioid safety, risks and benefits, and monitoring them; and modifying or discontinuing the drugs when there is too little benefit or too much risk.
Boston University School of Medicine has trained over 25,000 people in prescribing opioids safely.
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