March 19, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
You are invited to attend an Opioid Addiction and Prescribing Conference to be held at the DeKalb County Community Center on Tuesday, March 20 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. A dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m.
On-line registration for the conference has closed but if you have not registered you can register at the door. Please call 615-684-6378 to let them know you are coming.
The DeKalb and Smith County Drug Prevention Coalitions are partnering with East Tennessee State University and the Tennessee Department of Health to educate health care professionals and others about proper prescribing practices to curb the spread of opioid abuse.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Mitchell Mutter of Chattanooga, Medical Director of Special Projects for the Tennessee Department of Health.
The program is open to all levels of health care professionals including physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, dentists and others interested in solutions.
Attendees will learn about prescription opioid misuse and abuse trends, risk management tools, new laws and regulations effecting pain management specialists, current prescription related trends, the Tennessee Controlled Substance Monitoring Database, Chronic Pain Guidelines, and identifying strategies to incorporate evidence based best practice standards for safe opioid prescribing practices into team-based care.
The registration fee for the event is $50 for health care professionals and $15 for all others.