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Program Goals

Pharmacy Technicians completing this program should be better prepared to:

• Discuss the scope of the opioid crisis, the transition from initial exposure to opioid use disorder, and recognition and management of acute opioid withdrawal
• Describe the use of medication-assisted treatment in management of opioid use disorder
• Identify patients who have potentially overdosed on opioids and how naloxone can be used as bystander rescue therapy
• Discuss the history of the opioid epidemic, approaches tried in combatting it, and current thinking about best practices in this field