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A Little Dab Should Do It: Pain Management with Cannabis

ACPE Activity Number: 0204-0000-22-048-H01-P/T
Release Date: July 9, 2022
Expiration Date: July 9, 2025
Activity Type: Knowledge-based
CE Credits:  0.25 contact hours
Activity Fee: Member – Free / Non-Member – Not Available 

Activity Overview 

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians providing care to patients with acute and chronic pain are seeing increasing numbers of patients turning to cannabis-related products for analgesia.  There has been strong evidence -based data to support this practice is currently lacking.  With increased knowledge of cannabis use for analgesia, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians can play an increased role to educate this patient population on the potential harms and benefits of this practice. 

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians providing care to patients with acute and chronic pain are seeing increasing numbers of patients turning to cannabis-related products for analgesia.  There has been strong evidence -based data to support this practice is currently lacking.  With increased knowledge of cannabis use for analgesia, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians can play an increased role to educate this patient population on the potential harms and benefits of this practice.

After participating in this CPE activity, participants should be able to:

  • Explain the role of cannabis for pain control.
  • Identify an appropriate cannabis formulation based on type of pain and patient preference 

  • Introduction and Announcements 

  • Presentation  

Panelist
Chris Herndon, PharmD, BCACP, CPE
Professor
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Pharmacy  

Panelist
Maria Foy, PharmD, BCPS, CPE
Pharmacy Care Coordinator
Palliative Care
Jefferson Abington Health
Abington, PA

Moderator
Jenny Koehl, PharmD, BCPS
Emergency Medicine Clinical Specialist
Massachusettes General Hospital

In accordance with our accreditor’s Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ASHP requires that all individuals in control of content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if they have had a financial relationship with an ineligible company in any dollar amount in the past 24 months and the educational content that the individual controls is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. 

An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience. 

  • No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company. 

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