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Safer Pain Management Practices for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
The presentation is planned to address how to manage painful conditions in patients on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).

This webinar is free to AOAAM members.
Non-members at $25. Consider membership!

1. Describe the neurobiology in the development of addiction
2. Recognize unhealthy substance use patterns and distinguish between substance misuse and substance use disorder
3. Analyze risk factors influencing pain management and the development of a substance use disorder
4. Develop safer opioid prescribing for patients with opioid use disorder and to decrease risk for development of an opioid use disorder
5. Understand how to use MOUD in treatment of painful conditions

This activity is designed to improve patient outcomes by increasing learner's knowledge of managing pain for patients on MOUD as well as decreasing the risk for the development of OUD.

CME: This webinar series has been approved for a maximum 4, AOA Category 1-A CME credits, and AOA designates this for a maximum of 4, AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of the extent of their participation.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and AOAAM. The AOA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Elise Wessol, DO Carle Addiction Recovery Center

Elise Wessol, DO, is a fellowship trained, board-certified addiction medicine physician practicing at Carle Addiction Recovery Center in Champaign, Illinois. She is board certified in family medicine and completed a family medicine residency at Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign after completing medical school at AT Still University. She served as a Volunteer In Service To America (VISTA) at a healthcare for the homeless clinic in Casper, Wyoming through AmeriCorps. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison addiction medicine fellowship program. She now works in outpatient, inpatient, and mobile health care settings providing treatment for people with substance use disorders. She serves as a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. She is an ISAM board member and chairs the education committee. She is dedicated to providing education for clinicians, residents, and medical students in an effort to banish stigma, inform policy, and promote evidence-based treatment for people who suffer from the disease of addiction.