Symposia
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- Track: Clinical Practice
- CME/CE: 1.0
Sponsored by the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use among Older Adults SIG and the Achieving Health Equity Among Diverse Older Adults SIG
Moderator: Benjamin Han, MD, MPH
This is an interactive, interprofessional workshop aiming to demonstrate how to incorporate harm reduction strategies into the care of older adults taking prescription and non-prescription opioids. Learning Objectives: (1) recognize harm reduction as an integral part of geriatrics care; (2) list best practices for prescribing opioids in older adults to maximize harm reduction; (3) prescribe buprenorphine for pain control and harm reduction in older adults: (4) demonstrate the use of intranasal naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and xylazine test strips.
Introduction Kimberly J. Beiting, MD |
Harm Reduction in Geriatrics Justina Groeger, MD, MPH |
Identifying High-Risk Opioid Use in Geriatrics Justine Landi, MD |
Buprenorphine in Geriatrics Vassiliki Pravodelov, MD, FACP |