Maryland holding statewide opioid education sessions
The Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi) Center for a Healthy Maryland is holding trainings throughout the state to familiarize physicians with the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The trainings, which will occur in four key state regions, are free and provide continuing medical education credits. They will take place between May 24 and June 22.
In addition to supporting physicians' efforts to enhance their education, MedChi also was heavily engaged in new bills signed by the governor, as well as issuing a recent report showing yearly decreases in opioid prescribing in Maryland and increases in PDMP use by physicians and other health care professionals.
For more information about efforts in Maryland, please contact MedChi's Gene Ransom.
