This updated America’s Health Insurance Plans’s (AHIP) report examines how insurers use claims data to measure prescriber adherence to prescribing guidelines – the STOP measure.
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STOP Playbook: How Health Plans Are Tackling the Opioid Crisis
Source: America's Health Insurance Plans
The STOP initiative from AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) is intended to help reduce unsafe opioid prescribing by providing a system to measure adherence to opioid prescribing guidelines using insurance claims data. This report describes other strategies health plans may use to reduce inappropriate and unsafe prescriptions.
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Opioid Use Disorders: Interventions for Community Pharmacists
Source: College of Psychiatric & Neurologic Pharmacists
This 2016 report from The College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists provides information for community pharmacists about opioid use disorder and how pharmacists can assist in efforts to reduce prescription misuse and treat opioid use disorder.
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Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care
Source: State of Washington
This website presents the Six Building Blocks program for primary care teams who want to improve their practice’s management of patients on long term opioid therapy for chronic pain. It defines the Six Building Blocks and provides tools and resources for improving patient care as well as implementation guidance for the program.
Patients & Caregivers
Michael’s Story: Face to Face with the Prescription Opioid Crisis
Source: National Safety Council
This video is from the perspective of a father who did not understand the risks of the opioid prescription a doctor gave to his son. Eventually his son died from an overdose. This video encourages patients and caregivers to understand the risks of opioid prescriptions. Produced by the National Safety Council, the video
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Evidence Brief: Benefits and Harms of Long-term Opioid Dose Reduction or Discontinuation in Patients with Chronic Pain
Source: Department of Veterans Affairs
A 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). The report analyzes published studies to determine the benefits and harms for patients when tapering their opioid medications to lower doses or discontinuation and reviews whether benefits and harms vary by
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Law Enforcement, Licensing Board Investigator, and AHCCCS Privacy Statement
Source: Arizona Rethink RX Abuse & Arizona Board of Pharmacy
The Arizona State Board of Pharmacy requires law enforcement, licensing board investigators, or staff from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (e.g., Medicaid) to sign this privacy form before being granted access to the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program. Part of the Arizona ReThink RX Abuse initiative which helps communities educate their citizens about prescription drug safety.
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DEA Information on Telemedicine (COVID-19)
Source: U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
This 1 page fact sheet from the Drug Enforcement Administration clarifies that during the Covid-19 public health emergency prescribers will be able to use telemedicine to evaluate a patient and prescribe schedule II-IV drugs.
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Life in Rural America
Source: NPR, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
This report summarizes the findings of a poll of 1300 adults living in rural American conducted by National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. According to respondents, the biggest challenges facing rural America
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What Happens When You Flip the Script?
Source: Minnesota Department of Human Services
This 4 minute video from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign features interviews with a physician and patient about how the decision to change the patient’s opioid prescription improved the patient’s quality of life and the provider’s relationship to his patients and his practice.