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Review recent substance use and addiction news, publications, resources, and more for those in the dental field.
Education/CME
- Science to Medicine – Review the latest science about screening for substance use in the dental setting and get real-world tips from colleagues with considerations and resources to help you implement screening in your practice.
- Safe Opioid Prescribing for Acute Dental Pain course – Boston University School of Dental Medicine
- Dental SBIRT Course Now Available – The Opioid Response Network is making available a new dental curriculum on SBIRT (screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment), an evidence-based approach to managing patients with or at risk of developing a substance use disorder (SUD).
- NIH Pain Consortium’s Centers of Excellence in Pain Education – Curriculum resources for medical, dental, nursing and pharmacy students to enhance and improve how health care professionals are taught about pain and its treatment.
Opioid Crisis & Pain Management
- ADA, NIH look for ways to collaborate on dentistry’s role in preventing opioid misuse
- A White Paper on Opioid Prescribing from the American Association of Oral Maxillofacial Surgeons
- The Role of Dental Education in the Prevention of Opioid Prescription Drug Misuse – American Dental Education Association
More Resources
- Visit the NIDAMED homepage for additional CME courses, patient materials, and information on the opioid crisis, screening, prevention, and treatment.