Payers & Providers

Flip the Script: Discussion Guide

Source: Minnesota Department of Human Services

This 4 page guide from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign centers on health care providers conducting difficult conversations with patients around opioids. This guide provides information about the risks of long-term opioid therapy and provides information about understanding acute, post-acute and chronic pain. It also outlines talking points and specific language health care providers can use when talking to their patients.

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Flip the Script: Difficult Conversations

Source: Minnesota Department of Human Services

This 4 page guide from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign centers on health care providers and conducting difficult conversations with patients around opioids. The guide covers topics such as tapering opioid dose, pain relief, emerging behavioral health conditions, and concerns about the addiction risk of using opioids and includes sample language providers can use when talking to patients.

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Patients & Caregivers

Opioids: Getting In Is Easier Than Getting Out (For Males)

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

This 30 second public service announcement is intended to attract attention to the website EasierInThanOut.org also known as Something Better.

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Policymakers & Community Leaders
Patients & Caregivers

Opioids: Getting In is Easier Than Getting Out (For Females)

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

This 30 second public service announcement is intended to attract attention to the website EasierInThanOut.org also known as Something Better.

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Payers & Providers

Health Plan Rx for the Opioid Epidemic

Source: California Health Care Foundation

This one page document summarizes the strategies health plans can use to reduce opioid overuse and misuse among their patient populations as described in the 2 California Health Care Foundation Reports. Funding Source:  California Health Care Foundation

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Changing Course: The Role of Health Plans in Curbing the Opioid Epidemic

Source: California Health Care Foundation

A 2016 report from the California Health Care Foundation on strategies health plans can adopt to address opioid overuse and misuse among their insured populations. The report provides examples of strategies in 4 areas: engaging providers, working with high-risk members, addressing misuse, and supporting healthy

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Case Studies: Three California Health Plans Take Action Against Opioid Overuse

Source: Case studies of 3 California health plans that took aggressive action to reduce opioid overuse and misuse in their patient populations.

This 2016 report profiles 3 California health plans that took aggressive actions to reduce opioid overuse and misuse among their patient populations and presents the results from their efforts. The report profiles the efforts of Partnership Health Plan of California, Blue Shield of California, and Kaiser Permanente Southern California. Prepared by the California Health Care Foundation. Funding Source:  California Health Care Foundation

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Pain Management Resources

Source: Washington Medical Commission

This website from the Washington Medical Commission includes resources for Washington physicians and physician assistants on pain management and information about the 2018 Washington state opioid prescribing rules. Funding Source:  Washington Medical Commission

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