BRANSON – 52 healthcare practitioners gathered in Branson Friday for the opioid stewardship training.
This training seminar is meant to help reduce prescribing high risk meds, such as controlled substances like opioids to those who may abuse them.
The learned techniques are meant to minimize harm on both sides.
”We are working very hard to see whatever is in our influence to help provide pain medications to those that need the pain meds and try and take the people off that have been on it too long and make sure we do not introduce opioids to those that do not need it,” Assistant Clinical Director of Cox Pharmacy Tayo Bakare says.
Both the Stone and Taney Substance Abuse Initiative collaborated with the Cox Health Pharmacy Department for this project.
The project was put on by the Cox Medical Center in Branson and funded by a grant from Skaggs Legacy.
Source: Ozarks First