The ADA Practical Guide to Substance Use Disorders and Safe Prescribing

Dentists have been inundated by patients with an array of complicated medical conditions and pain/sedation management issues. This is in addition to a variety of legal regulations dentists must follow regarding the storage and recordkeeping of controlled substances. Avoid unknowingly putting your practice at risk by becoming victim to a scam or violating a recordkeeping requirement with “The ADA Practical Guide to Substance Use Disorders and Safe Prescribing”.
This Practical Guide is ideal for dentists and staff as they navigate:
• Detecting and deterring substance use disorders (SUD) and drug diversion in the dental office (drug-seeking patients)

• Prescribing complexities

• Treating patients with SUD and complex analgesic and sedation (pain/sedation management) needs and the best use of sedation anxiety medication

• Interviewing and counselling options for SUD

• Federal drug regulations

Commonly used illicit, prescription, and over-the-counter drugs, as well as alcohol and tobacco, are also covered.
Special features include:
• Clinical tools proven to aid in the identification, interviewing, intervention, referral and treatment of SUD

• Basic elements of SUD, acute pain/sedation management, and drug diversion

• Summary of evidence-based literature that supports what, when and how to prescribe controlled substances to patients with SUD

• Discussion of key federal controlled substance regulations that frequently impact dental practitioners

• Checklists to help prevent drug diversion in dental practices

• Chapter on impaired dental professionals

• Case studies that examine safe prescribing and due diligence