SOC recognizes the importance of creating policies and guidelines that are evidence-based, work for clinicians and health systems and improve patient care. 

Dr. Stader and his team at SOC have been national leaders in creating guidelines aimed at limiting opioid use and prescription, promoting use of alternatives to opioids (ALTO) and providing optimal care for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD). 

SOC spearheaded one of the nation’s largest and most collaborative guideline-writing projects, CO’s CURE (The Colorado Opioid Solution: Clinician’s United to Resolve the Epidemic. The CURE initiative brought together 10+ medical subspecialty societies in an effort to write guidelines that coordinate the efforts of multiple specialties around the pillars of limiting opioids, ALTO, harm reduction and treatment of OUD. Guidelines were produced for emergency medicine, surgery, hospitalist medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, occupational medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. 

Dr. Stader is the editor-in-chief of COACEP’s 2017 Opioid Prescribing & Treatment Guidelines, which helped launch ALTO as a nationwide movement and led to the creation of the Colorado ALTO project, which has trained over 90% of Colorado hospitals in ALTO implementation. 

Dr. Stader is an editor of the nation’s first naloxone guidelines for hospitals. 

In addition, SOC has worked with individual hospitals, clinics, physician groups, and health systems to adopt and implement comprehensive opioid stewardship guidelines to specific patient populations. 

For states and organizations looking to craft policies and guidelines or adopt evidence-based practice in any area related to opioid stewardship, SOC can provide experience and expertise.