UNE’s Kenneth McCall presents webinar on Maine’s new opioid prescribing law

Focusing on the legal aspect of opioid regulation, Kenneth McCall, BSPharm, Pharm.D., CGP, associate professor for the Department of Pharmacy Practice, was a featured speaker in a Caring for ME Pharmacy webinar. Held January 11, 2017, McCall co-presented with Gordon H. Smith, Esq., executive vice president of Maine Medical Association.

The talk addressed Maine’s new opioid prescribing law, Chapter 488. This regulation stipulates that opioid prescriptions be limited to 100 morphine milligram equivalents per patient per day, that prescribers take an opioid prescribing course and that the Prescription Monitoring Program be consulted before any opioid or benzodiazepine prescription is written. McCall and Smith provided an overview of the law and associated rules, discussing the impact on Maine’s pharmacy community and strategies for applying the new regulations in practice. They also explained the implementation timeline as well as the rule-making and exception process.

This webinar was accredited by the College of Pharmacy’s Office of Continuing Education in conjunction with Maine Quality Counts, a regional health improvement collaborative dedicated to improving health care quality throughout Maine.

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