About the Opioid Stewardship Program

The UK Opioid Stewardship Program is a comprehensive initiative that aims to improve the quality and safety of pain management for patients who are prescribed opioids. 

The program has three main objectives:

• To improve the overall approach to unnecessary opioid use by conducting functional pain assessments, setting collaborative goals and providing education for patients and providers. 
• To improve the safety of opioid use by optimizing policy and procedure guidelines, updating tools and modalities, providing education, integrating clinical pharmacists into medication management and implementing risk mitigation strategies. 
• To treat patients with opioid use disorder by improving the screening, identification and treatment of this condition, decreasing stigma and bias and promoting harm reduction practices.