Opioid abuse in the United States has been declared an epidemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Awareness has never been higher. An important tool to address the opioid crisis in America is to perform better assessments of patients within the health care system. Addiction has a genetic component, and assessing opioid abuse in families may be a way to a way to lower risk. This webinar will provide information regarding the background issues related to the opioid epidemic, and also provide the listener with the tools to perform better assessments of opioid risk in families.