Dental
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Host Elizabeth Esty, MD sits down with Dr. Don Stader and Dr. Susan Somerset to discuss the Colorado Hospital Association's opioid prescribing guidelines for dentists. Dr. Don Stader is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine and the editor in chief for all of the Colorado's CURE Guidelines and Dr. Susan Somerset, DMD is a general dentist and a pharmacist and former attending at Denver Health.
Colorado's CURE focuses on four pillars:
- Limiting the use of opioids in clinical practice
- Using multimodal alternatives to opioids (ALTO) to better treat pain without the risks that come with opioids
- Harm Reduction
- Improving care for those who have developed an opioid use disorder
Access Colorado's CURE Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for dentists and other specialties here!
Colorado’s CURE is supported by the Colorado Hospital Association, the Colorado Medical Society, the Colorado Consortium Colorado for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and the Colorado Office of Behavioral Health
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