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Stress and chronic pain can feed off each other, making both feel harder to manage. Learn why this cycle happens, how to break it, and actions that help you feel more in control.
Implementing Harm Reduction Strategies to Reduce Opioid Overdoses
Nurse practitioners play a pivotal role in ensuring patients’ access to naloxone to reduce the number of opioid overdoses. A quality improvement project was developed to determine if or to what degree the implementation of the Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit would impact patient access to naloxone in a pain management practice.
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