2025 Prescribers Summit CME Online Course !
Video Link's sent upon registration.
Questions: Jenny White ([email protected])

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Summarize the pharmacology of benzodiazepines, review their appropriate use, and identify indications for discontinuation, along with tapering strategies.
• Describe the three steps in the step-wise approach to managing pain, list updates to the 2022 CDC Pain Guidelines, and discuss approaches to maximize benefits and minimize risks when utilizing opioids for pain.
• Review access issues for OUD treatment, discuss population health outcomes for OUD in Mississippi, and explore public health interventions that demonstrate success.
• Explore the historical shifts and trends in drug culture and analyze how these shifts affect public safety, crime, and healthcare systems.
• Examine the intersection of law enforcement and healthcare in addressing substance use and propose integrated strategies for prevention, intervention, and policy development.

The Mississippi State Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Mississippi State Medical Association designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 5.0 Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

MSMA would like to thank the Mississippi Physicians Care Network

for its generous support of this event.