WESTON, Mass., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Robert L. Barkin, Associate
 Professor at Rush University Medical Center in the departments of
 Anesthesiology, Family Medicine, Pharmacology, and Clinical Pharmacologist
 for the Rush Pain Center of Chicago and the Northshore Pain Center of
 Skokie, IL, will make two key presentations at the Opioid Education Program
 to be held at Northwestern University September 16 and 17. At this
 conference, Barkin will join a renowned team of pain and regulatory
 specialists to inform primary care physicians, pain specialists and other
 opioid prescribers in the uses, abuses, and legal ramifications of these
 powerful painkillers. Dr. Barkin's presentations are entitled "Acute and
 chronic pain management: a pharmacotherapeutic overview" and "Urine Drug
 Testing: which patient, which drug, and why."
     The Opioid Education Program, to be held at Northwestern's Thorne
 Auditorium, is sponsored by the Opioid Management Society in association
 with the Journal of Opioid Management, and has been approved for AMA PRA
 Category 1 Credits(TM) for physicians and ACPE approved continuing pharmacy
 education through the University of Kentucky Colleges of Pharmacy and
 Medicine Continuing Education Office.
     The Chicago conference is based on the overwhelmingly enthusiastic
 response to the inaugural Opioid Certification Program held April 22-23,
 2006 at the Conference Center at Harvard Medical in Boston, Massachusetts.
 David Raper, a hospice and palliative medicine physician from Louisville,
 Kentucky who attended the Boston conference, voiced a sentiment shared by
 many: "The program was a first-rate educational experience with specific
 applications for my own work. I would highly recommend it to anyone
 involved in the prescription or management of opioids."
     "With the Boston conference, we clearly proved the concept," said
 Conference Leader Robert E. Enck, MD, Professor of Medicine, Thomas
 Jefferson University, "that this is the exact kind of program every primary
 care physician, every opioid prescriber, needs to protect themselves from
 overzealous law enforcement officials while learning how to properly and
 compassionately prescribe opioids for their patients who need them." In
 addition to the Chicago conference, the Opioid Education Program will be
 held in three other locations in 2006: Philadelphia (Oct. 7-8), Miami (Oct.
 28-29), and Houston (Nov. 11-12).
     For more information or to register for the Chicago Opioid Education
 Program, please visit http://www.opioidmanagementsociety.org or call
 800-743- 7206 x103.
      Contact: Richard A. DeVito, Jr.
               JOM/OMS
               781-899-2702  Ext 107
               mailto: radjr@pnpco.com
 
 

SOURCE  The Opioid Management Society

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