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23rd Annual Meeting
February 7-10, 2007
New Orleans, LA
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Supported by an educational grant from Merck & Co., Inc.



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Wednesday, February 7, 2007: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
The Truth About Pain Management: The Interface of Pain and Addiction
The fear of addiction is one of the barriers to opioid pain management; the result can be under- or nontreatment of moderate to severe pain. Addiction is a brain disease in which the diagnosis is often made prospectively over time and must be understood by the prescribing healthcare professional doing pain management. To that end, this seminar will give the definitions of addiction, physical dependence, tolerance, pseudotolerance and pseudoaddiction. The seminar will present “Universal Precautions in Pain Medicine” and explain opioid agreements, urine drug testing (UDT) in patients with or without the disease of addiction, and entrance and exit strategies in prescribing schedule II medications. The information presented in this seminar should allow the prescriber to begin a relationship with the patient based on mutual trust and honesty. This relationship should begin before writing the first prescription for a controlled substance.
Submitter:Howard Heit
Moderator:Howard A. Heit, MD
8:00 AM Addiction: Just What Is It?
Howard A. Heit, MD
8:25 AM Universal Precautions in Pain Medicine
Douglas L. Gourlay, MD, MSc
8:50 AM Entrance and Exit Strategy for the Use of Opioids in the Treatment of Pain
Edward C. Covington, MD
9:15 AM Q&A/panel discussion
9:35 AM Break
9:55 AM Rules of the Game: Federal Regulations of Prescribing a Controlled Substance
Howard A. Heit, MD
10:25 AM Urine Drug Testing: A Therapeutic Approach
Douglas L. Gourlay, MD, MSc
10:55 AM “Clinical Pearls” in the Interface of Pain and Addiction
Edward C. Covington, MD
11:25 AM Question and Answer Session/Panel Discussion
Howard A. Heit, MD

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