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Screening for Opioid Misuse and Risk

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  • ONLY Express Path Option-Read the overview. Watch this brief video highlighting the different screening tools used in practice for each category. Please find examples of these screening tools attached for your personal use. Also included is the American Psychiatric Association’s overview and classification of Opioid Use Disorder.

Overview 

There are five types of screening categories for opioid-related misuse, addiction risk, withdrawal, ongoing assessment and related conditions that complicate the clinical picture for a patient in pain or with an opioid use disorder. These categories include:

  1. General Screening for patients to assess for misuse during initial or routine visits.
  2. Addiction Risk screening before a patient receives a prescription for an opioid. Helps you and the patient to make more informed choices.
  3. Opiate Withdrawal as a clinical tool to initiate buprenorphine treatment or gauge if a client is experiencing withdrawal symptoms in a clinical setting.
  4. Ongoing Assessment and monitoring of a patient taking opioids to measure misuse or improvement in functionality. Helps you to measure progress and enforce limits.
  5. Co-morbid Conditions that make pain worse and complicate the clinical picture for a patient with Opioid Use Disorder. Such conditions include depression, anxiety, PTSD, and sleep apnea. 

Video running time 2:30 minutes 

Adolescent Tools for Inital Screening and Trauma 

American Psychiatric Association’s overview and DSM 5 criteria for Opioid Use Disorder: