Effective Conversations about Opioid Tapering and Deprescribing

Meeting Dates: 
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Meeting Time and Location: 

10-11:30am

Virtual

Note: 

Join us for our fifth Safer Prescribing Series webinar discussing strategies for having effective conversations with patients, including how to navigate interactions relating to opioid tapering and deprescribing.

Educational Planner/Moderator: Eve Losman, MD, MHSA

Speakers: Chris Frank, MD, PhD and Jillian DiClemente, PharmD

Target Audience: Physicians and Medical Students, although the session is open to all

Expected Outcomes:

  1. Diagnose a patient with Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD)

  2. Incorporate methods of harm reduction, safe prescribing and healthy equity into their patient interactions relating to opioids
  3. Implement effective conversation strategies in the context of the management of patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)
  4. Describe the indications for the initiation of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) for patients with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

Free CME is available.