CANTON, Mass., Sept. 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (NASDAQ:COLL) announces the launch of OpioidIQ, an online educational tool to assist physicians and other healthcare providers with more effective pain management (Available at: www.OpioidIQ.com). The goal of OpioidIQ is to connect healthcare providers to information and resources aimed at supporting the safe and effective management of their patients with chronic pain who are appropriate for treatment with an opioid analgesic.
OpioidIQ provides physicians and other allied healthcare providers with tools to assess which patients are appropriate for opioid analgesics and important topics that need to be addressed with patients when deciding to treat them with an opioid analgesic, including:
- Appropriate opioid use
- Risks of unintentional misuse and abuse
- Enhancing communications between patients and healthcare providers
- Resources for providing information to patients and caregivers to avoid unintentional opioid misuse
- Role of abuse-deterrent formulations (ADFs)
“Up to 1 in 4 patients misuse their opioid medication, and many of those patients are doing so unintentionally1” said Michael Heffernan, Founder, President & CEO of Collegium. “As part of our commitment to delivering safe and effective solutions for patients, we’re pleased to launch OpioidIQ. This educational platform will not only bring much needed awareness to the issue of opioid misuse, but also help clinicians identify the risk of unintentional misuse, enhance patient communication, and optimize pain management.”
“Opioids should only be prescribed after alternative non-opioid treatment options have been fully explored. Once a clinician has decided to prescribe an opioid to a patient, the clinician then needs to make it a point to ask the patient how he/she is taking his/her medicines. For example, are they ever crushing, chewing, or dissolving them prior to taking them,” said Dr. Jeff Gudin, Director of Pain Management and Palliative Care at the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey. “Having the tools to start those conversations could mean the difference between life and death.”
For more information, visit www.OpioidIQ.com.
About Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company developing and commercializing products for the treatment of patients suffering from chronic pain and other diseases.
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1 Vowles KE, McEntee ML, Julnes PS, Frohe T, Ney JP, van der Goes DN. Rates of opioid misuse, abuse, and addiction in chronic pain: a systematic review and data synthesis. Pain. 2015;156(4):569-576.