Complexities in Chronic Pain & Prostate Cancer Management Principles of opioid prescribing – When to trial, when to cease Apply a biopsychosocial approach to the assessment and management of chronic back pain Stratify psychosocial risks to guide the use of non-pharmacotherapies in the management of low back pain Utilise best practice principles when prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-cancer pain Apply appropriate therapeutic structure to opioid prescribing Know when and how to stop opioid therapy Complexities in Pain – The inherited patient Adopt a sociopsychobiomedical approach to the assessment and management of patients with chronic non-cancer pain Apply the 6 A’s to assess the response to opioids used to manage chronic non-cancer pain Utilise best practice principles when prescribing opioid analgesics in the management of moderate to severe chronic non-cancer pain Apply appropriate therapeutic structure to opioid prescribing for patients where opioids were initiated by another prescriber Shared care – Managing prostate cancer with ADT Understand the role of androgen deprivation therapy in the management of prostate cancer Identify and manage common side effects associated with LHRH agonist therapy Adopt best practice in monitoring patients on long-term androgen deprivation therapy Clear understanding of the GP’s role in the screening and management of prostate cancer