Pain Management
The opioid epidemic is amongst the major challenges facing healthcare professionals and our nation. Providing education and resource support is essential to ensure that clinicians address this issue with knowledge and understanding. Included below are tools to be utilized as supplemental background information to help guide pharmacy practice in opioid stewardship and pain management. (Resources accompanied with the lock symbol 
are exclusively for ASHP members. If you are not currently a member, join today to access these documents.)
Pharmacotherapy
- ASHP Opioid Conversion Tables
- ASHP FAQ: CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline Updates
- CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain – 2022
- CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain – At A Glance
- Pain Assessment and Management Standards for Hospitals (Joint Commission)
- American Academy of Pain Medicine Pain Guidelines
- National Quality Partners Playbook™: Opioid Stewardship
- Safe Opioid Prescribing (HHS)
Patient Resources
- Opioids – Information for Patients (CDC)
- National Opioids Crisis: Help and Resources (HHS)
- Opioid Facts and Statistics (HHS)
- Opioids (National Institutes of Health)
- Strategy to Fight the Opioid Crisis (CDC)
ASHP Educational Sessions
- Acute Pain Management in Patients Treated with Buprenorphine – Midyear 2021
- Innovation at Work: Leveraging Pharmacists to Close Gaps in Mental Health and Pain Care – Midyear 2021
- Can’t miss session at ASHP Midyear 2023 - No Pain, No Gain: Updates in Opioid Prescribing and Non-Opioid Pain Management
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