This 2019 legislation, signed by Arizona’s governor, requires all health care providers to use electronic prescribing for all Schedule II controlled substances by January 1, 2020.
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PBSS Data Brief: Patient Risk Measures for Controlled Substance Prescriptions in Idaho, 2012-2014
Source: Prescription Behavior Surveillance System - Brandeis University
The Prescription Behavior Surveillance System (PBSS) collects deidentified data from state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) to identify trends in controlled substance prescribing and dispensing and indicators of non-medical use and diversion. This 2016 report summarizes the data from Idaho’s PDMP.
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PBSS Data Brief: Decline in Patient Prescription Risk Measures in Florida, 2011-2015
Source: Prescription Behavior Surveillance System - Brandeis University
The Prescription Behavior Surveillance System (PBSS) collects deidentified data from state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) to identify trends in controlled substance prescribing and dispensing and indicators of non-medical use and diversion. This 2016 report summarizes the data from Florida’s PDMP.
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PBSS Data Brief: Patient Risk Measures for Controlled Substance Prescriptions in Delaware, 2012-2015
Source: Prescription Behavior Surveillance System - Brandeis University
The Prescription Behavior Surveillance System (PBSS) collects deidentified data from state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) to identify trends in controlled substance prescribing and dispensing and indicators of non-medical use and diversion. This 2016 report summarizes the data from Delaware’s PDMP.
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Opioid Task Force 2019 Progress Report
Source: American Medical Association
This 2019 report from the American Medical Association’s Opioid Task Force includes recommendations for physicians and health care providers and policymakers in addressing the opioid epidemic.
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Public Health Crises and Pharmaceutical Interventions: Improving Access While Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability
Source: National Governor's Association
This report from the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices focuses on strategies states can use to ensure access to pharmaceutical treatments needed to address public health crises. The report addresses opioid related treatment such as medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder
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Patients & Caregivers
Rx Pain Medications: Prescription Pain Medication Agreement
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
One strategy for improving safe opioid prescribing is to have the patient and the health care provider enter into a prescription pain medication agreement. This sample agreement from SAMHSA can be used as is or adapted as needed.
Patients & Caregivers
Rx Pain Medications: What to Do if Your Medication Isn’t Working
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This one page document gives patients information about what to do if their pain medication is not working.
Patients & Caregivers
Rx Pain Medications: Safe Disposal of Prescription Medications
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This one page document for patients and caregivers provides information on how to safely dispose of unused prescription drug medications including information about medication “take back” programs and an alternative strategy if such a program is not available.
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50 State Review on Opioid Related Policy – Appendix C: States’ Substance Abuse Task Forces: A Look Across the Nation
Source: Arizona Department of Health Services
The Arizona Department of Health Services prepared a 2017 review of opioid related policies in all 50 states to assist decision makers in evaluating what additional programmatic and policy actions they might want to adopt. This appendix to the report provides links to state substance abuse task forces and their recommendations.