IOTOD Winter webinar 2025

We are pleased to announce the upcoming IOTOD (Improving Outcomes in the Treatment of Opioid Dependence) winter webinar, ‘Opioid Dependence and Respiratory Health: Understanding and Managing the Impact,’ taking place online on Tuesday 16 December 2025. 

This 60-minute live session will be delivered by leading expert Professor Philip Bruggman, who will be joined by Mr Duncan Hill to share practical and clinical perspectives on opioid dependence and its impact on respiratory health.  

Developed by our CME division, PCM Scientific, this free educational event will examine why patients with chronic respiratory conditions, and older adults, face significantly heightened risks when living with opioid dependence. The webinar will explore how opioids depress central respiratory control, why comorbidities such as COPD, heart disease, sleep apnoea, and frailty increase susceptibility, and how polypharmacy further compounds the dangers. 

Our speakers will offer evidence-based guidance on recognising, monitoring, and managing respiratory complications in this vulnerable patient population. They will also highlight practical strategies to navigate common barriers to care, ensuring clinicians can better support patients while minimising respiratory harm. The session will conclude with a live Q&A. 

The IOTOD winter webinar is designed for healthcare professionals working across both primary and secondary care who wish to strengthen their understanding and clinical management of opioid dependency, particularly in patients with chronic respiratory disease. 

This event will be promoted via Cogora’s media brands to our community of healthcare professionals across the UK and Europe, including addiction specialists, pain specialists, GPs, primary care nurses, psychiatrists, and community pharmacists. 

This webinar builds on the success of our previous IOTOD online events, which remain available to watch free on demand on the IOTOD website. This includes the Summer webinar, ‘Reach. Reconnect. Retain: Solutions for Engaging High-Risk OUD Patients,’ will took place in September 2025.

Improving Outcomes in the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (IOTOD) is an educational initiative dedicated to advancing opioid dependence healthcare through free online learning, including live webinars, on-demand sessions, and e-learning modules. 

This IOTOD webinar is supported by grant funding from Camurus and Hospital Healthcare Europe. The educational programme is run at arm’s length from the financial supporters, and all content is created by the faculty. No funder has had input into the content of the materials or presentations used in the educational programme. PCM Scientific is the medical education company acting as scientific secretariat and webinar organiser.