A Feb. 5 webinar hosted by WorkCompCentral will examine drug abuse trends with prescription medications, including opioids, and suggest safeguards for treating pain in workers' compensation cases.Presenter Dr. Joel Mata is a pain-medicine specialist who attended Stanford University Medical School where he completed a pain management fellowship. He remained at Stanford as a clinician and educator and is now the medical director for early-intervention physician case management with CorVel.His one-hour web presentation includes statistics about the use of opioids in the United States, injurie...
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