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Strategy
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Examples of Key Activities
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Expected effect on opioid analgesic prescribing
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Expected effect on buprenorphine utilization
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1
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Community Education
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• Community- and school-based prevention education
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Decrease
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Increase
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• Multi-media advertising campaigns
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2
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Diversion Control
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• Education on proper storage of medications
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No change
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No change
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• Pill take-backs and fixed disposal sites
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• Training of law enforcement in the prevention of medication diversion and the arrest of diverters
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3
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Support for Patients with Pain
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• Development of support groups and other extra-clinical services for patients
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Decrease
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Increase
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• Referrals of patients to clinics
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• Pain patient education on reducing risks of overdose
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4
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Provider Education
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• Continuing education on the effective management of chronic pain and appropriate opioid prescribing
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Greatest decrease
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Increase
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• Effective management of patients with chronic pain
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5
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Hospital Emergency Department (ED) Policy
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• Policies to limit controlled substance dispensing in EDs
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Decrease
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No change
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• Policies to require use of the PDMP in EDs
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6
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Addiction Treatment
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• Increases in availability/access to drug detoxification programs and treatment clinics
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No change
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Greatest increase
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• Increases in the number of providers authorized to prescribe buprenorphine for addiction
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7
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Naloxone Policies
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• Provision of naloxone to patients and nonmedical opioid users with high overdose risk and their family members
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No change
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No change
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• Education on reversing overdose before EMS arrival
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