This patient brochure about opioid safety from the Veterans Health Administration includes information on topics such as: what are opioids, what is an opioid overdose, what does safe use of opioids mean, and a list of “opioid do’s and don’ts.” Part of a series of resources about opioid safety for patients from the Veterans Health Administration. Funding Source: Veterans Affairs Academic Detailing Service
This guide to managing acute pain was created by the Veterans Administration to help their clinicians reduce opioid prescriptions while also treating their patient’s pain. The guide presents a step-wise approach to pain management: step 1 prioritzes non-pharmacological treatments, step 2 consists of non-pharmacological approaches and non-opioid pharmacotherapy second, and step 3 adds short term use of short-acting
The parental tool-kit created as part of the Operation Prevention substance abuse prevention program created by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Discovery Education. The tool-kit includes information for parents to accompany the curriculum students receive in Operation Prevention programs in K-12 education programs.
The Arizona Department of Health Services hosts this website which provides information for youth that there are better things to do than misuse drugs or alcohol. The website includes information about alcohol, opioids, and marijuana and coaches youth to identify activities and events that they can participate in rather than misusing alcohol or drugs.
Oregon’s chronic pain task force endorsed the 2016 Center for Disease Control’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain and prepared this report to provide additional clarity to the CDC guideline and address Oregon-specific issues such as legal marijuana.
This one page document provides advice for patients and caregivers about safe storage and safe disposal of opioid medications and provides cautions on the risk of taking opioids with other medications and of sharing prescription medicines with friends and families.
This infographic from SAMHSA educates patients who use opioids on how to treat and overdose with naloxone.
This 2-page guide is designed to assist pharmacists in talking with patients and caregivers about naloxone.
This patient education brochure addresses how to safely manage the risks of prescription medications. The brochure provides tips for patients on how to reduce the risks of medication through consultation with their prescriber or pharmacist and with simple actions patients can take.
The supplementary materials to support the systematic review of the evidence for long term outcomes of tapering opioid doses in patients on long term opioid therapy for chronic pain from the Veterans Affairs Evidence Synthesis Program (ESP). These materials include search strategies used in the systematic review, inclusion/exclusion criteria for studies reviewed, evidence tables, and quality assessment of studies included in the review.