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Experts explore using technology and data analytics to enhance opioid stewardship programs, addressing challenges health care professionals face, and providing strategies for effective patient care, leveraging data, and fostering supportive environments.

Experts discuss advantages of prefilled syringes in opioid delivery—reducing errors, enhancing safety, and minimizing waste—while providing insights on optimizing dosage forms.

Experts discuss opioid use with a focus on validated assessment tools, monitoring strategies, and risk mitigation practices, delving into the complexities of pain scales and emphasizing the need for functional assessments.

Health care professionals discuss navigating challenges in opioid management, emphasizing a patient-centric approach, and address barriers and differences among opioid misuse, abuse, and use disorder.

Stephanie Abel, PharmD, BCPS, and Megan Mitchell, PharmD, MS, discuss pharmacist roles in combating biases, fostering collaboration with prescribers, and implementing strategies for effective opioid stewardship.

A panel of experts share insights on overcoming challenges in responsible opioid prescribing and explore emotional responses, aversion to change, and the role of interdisciplinary collaboration in addressing the opioid crisis.

Expert colleagues explore responsible opioid management strategies and discuss addressing biases affecting prescribing practices across demographics and replacing stigmatizing language to improve patient outcomes; they also review practical approaches to creating ethical, equitable, and patient-centered opioid stewardship programs.

Pharmacists involvement in HIV care and treatment has been shown to lead to clinically and statistically significant improvements in ART adherence, as well as greater viral load suppression for patients with HIV.

Dr. David Friedman’s time at Cook Children’s in Fort Worth helped me develop the idea to label IV lines.

Deteriorating working conditions inside the nation’s largest pharmacy chains have put patient safety at risk and plunged the profession into chaos.