1 CME Available What you need to know: The Updated CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain Monday, November 21 at 6:00 pm EDT NYSPS Legal Briefs  New 2022 CDC Guidelines on OPIOID USE FOR TREATMENT OF PAIN The CE experience for this Webinar is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and earn credits: https://earnc.me/p1nfCi The Guidelines state very clearly: “Nonopioid therapies are preferred for subacute and chronic pain.” If you are using opioids for subacute or chronic pain, which including both terms, means treating pain for 1 month or more, your chart must contain some justification for the use of opioids. This is an extremely important matter. Appropriate reasons, such as a prior treater, attempted various nonopioid treatments of some kind that failed. There must be a very good reason why opioids were tried. It must be documented.   Larry Kobak, Esq. Senior Counsel Frier Levitt ATTORNEYS AT LAW 101 Greenwich Street, Suite 8B New York, NY 10006 (516) 755-7553 direct (973) 618-1660 office [email protected] www.frierlevitt.com Course Calendar Regenerative Interventional Pain Course NYC- Jan, 28, 2023 Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia and  Pain Medicine Tamarindo, Costa Rica- Feb. 19, 2023 Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine NYC- March 11, 2023 Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine NYC- April 22, 2023 Pain Management Board Review/Refresher Course/ Ultrasound Training NYC- June 9-11, 2023