Built on published guidance
Every number traces to a source.
Conversion factors, dose thresholds and risk scoring come from the published literature, not from a rule of thumb. The citation sits next to the recommendation it supports.
- CDC 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain
- VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline 2022
- SAMHSA TIP 54
- HHS Clinician Guide 2019
- Webster & Webster Opioid Risk Tool, Pain Med 2005
- BRAVO Trial 2022 · Buprenorphine Rapid Taper
How it works
Three inputs. A dated schedule.
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1
Enter the regimen
Drug, tablet strength, tablets per dose, frequency. Oral opioids or a buprenorphine patch, with an optional short-acting breakthrough taper alongside it.
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2
Screen the risk
The Webster Opioid Risk Tool, scored and sex-weighted. Use the score alongside clinical assessment. Select the taper pace with the patient.
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3
Take the plan
Seven-day steps snapped to tablet strengths a pharmacy actually dispenses, with dose times, MME per step, a printable calendar and text ready to paste into the chart.
Who it's for
The prescriber writing the next script.
Built by a PA with a background in addiction medicine, to help his colleagues in spine surgery. It's for the people who have to turn a taper plan into an actual tablet count on an actual date, and it does the arithmetic and the calendar so the visit can be about the patient.
Build the map.
Free to use. Nothing to install. No patient data leaves the browser.
SafeTaper is a clinical decision-support aid. It does not replace prescriber judgement. Confirm all dosing against current institutional protocols. Built by David Coletta, PA-C.