Federal Grant Funds Opioid-Management Method for Older Adults in Oklahoma
The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center reports it recently received a $2.5 million federal grant to tailor methods of treating chronic pain to the older adult population – with an emphasis on decreasing the use of opioids – and to disseminate those best practices to primary care clinics across Oklahoma.
The grant, from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, will allow physicians and researchers to concentrate solely on older adults, and to establish standards of pain management that prioritize non-opioid medications and treatments, University of Oklahoma note in a media release.