Learning Outcomes

Having completed this course you will be able to:

• Define opioids and be able to provide examples of opioid products
• Describe the medical and non-medical uses of opioids
• Explain the human and economic costs associated opioid misuse
• Discuss the features of the global market for opioids
• Trace the influence of pharmceutical companies on the prescribing of opioids
• Identify the four evidence-based areas crucial to managing life in recovery
• Describe how opioids operate physiologically in the body
• Outline the features of an opioid treatment recovery plan
• Discuss opioid overdose fatality statistics
• Explain future opioid use projections and ways the crisis can be addressed