Participation in this course ends on April 15th.

SDCDS has partnered with Dental Didactics, an online CE platform, to provide our members with the Opioids course for FREE! Dive into this self-paced online course, designed to offer flexibility and convenience for our members to learn at their own pace. Please email membership@sdcds.org with your name and license number for the free code. 

The dental didactic opioid course is sufficient to renew your CA licensure.

California-required Prescribing Schedule II Opioid drugs satisfies the new California mandate for all narcotic prescribers to complete a 2-hour continuing education course on the responsibilities and regulations of prescribing Schedule II opioids.

Discusses:

• National Opioid Crisis
• Statistics of United States opioid prescribing
• Pharmacology of opioids
• Common dental pain management drugs
• non-opiate first-line pain medications
• Best practices of pain management in dentistry
• Common pain management regimens
• Pain medication mechanisms of action
• management of vulnerable populations
• adverse outcomes from opioid misuse
• CREWS 2.0 mandates
• recognition of opioid misuse signs and symptoms

Dental Didactics is an approved California Dental Board Registered CE Provider: RP3768, as well as an Academy of General Dentistry National PACE Provider #217643

To view Dental Didactics course offerings, click HERE. 

For current information regarding the MATE Act and training requirements, please click HERE.

If you are looking for a course to fulfill the DEA licensure renewal, please review these below::

• Drug Trends — Where Are We Today? (Part 1 of ADA & DEA Series)
• DEA Closed System of Distribution, Record Keeping and Sanctions (Part 2 of ADA & DEA Series)
• Prescribing Controlled Substances (Part 3 of ADA & DEA Series)
• The Special Considerations of Pain Management and Opioid Use in Older Adults (Recorded Webinar)
• Clinical Practice Guideline for Management of Acute Dental Pain
• Emergency Department Referral Model in Action: Addressing Dental Access Opioid Prevention and Pain Management
• Like Pulling Teeth: An Emergency Department Physician’s Perspective on Dental Issues in the ED (Recorded Webinar)
• Safe and Responsible Prescribing of Opioid Analgesics
• Factors Influencing o\Opioid Prescribing after\Tooth Extraction (September 2022, Article 3)
• Patterns of Opioid Prescribing in an Appalachian College of Dentistry (March 2021 Article 3)

Click HERE to read more from CDA regarding the new federal act requiring opioid use disorder training.