The Minnesota Department of Human Services convened a group of stakeholders to address opioid prescribing in the state through the Opioid Prescribing Improvement Project. The Opioid Prescribing Workgroup produced these 2018 guidelines on opioid prescribing for use by providers Continue reading
Resource Tag: Prescription Opioids
Flip the Script: Discussion Guide for Non-Prescribers
A 4 page guide for non-prescribers about having difficult conversations with patients about pain management and opioids from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign. This guide provides information about the risks of long-term opioid therapy and provides information about understanding acute, post-acute and chronic pain. The guide provides talking points and specific language health care providers can use when talking to their patients and preparing patients to continue the discussion with their prescribing provider.
Flip the Script: Discussion Guide
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.
Flip the Script: Difficult Conversations
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. Continue reading
HHS Guide for Clinicians on the Appropriate Dosage Reduction of Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Analgesics
Guidance for clinicians on how to taper patients’ long-term opioid prescriptions to lower dosages or discontinuation from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Continue reading
Association of Primary Care Clinic Appointment Time with Opioid Prescribing
An open-source journal article presenting the findings of a study on whether characteristics of primary care appointment timing were associated with increased opioid prescribing. Continue reading
Center for Opioid Research and Education
The Center for Opioid Research and Education is a consortium of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and patients who together created procedure specific opioid prescribing guidelines. In 2017, the consortium published guidelines offering consensus recommendations for the range of appropriate opioid prescribing following 20 common surgical procedures, and in 2018 published guidelines for 14 common dental procedures. Continue reading
Opioids: Getting In Is Easier Than Getting Out (For Males)
This 30 second public service announcement is intended to attract attention to the website EasierInThanOut.org also known as Something Better. Continue reading
Opioids: Getting In is Easier Than Getting Out (For Females)
This 30 second public service announcement is intended to attract attention to the website EasierInThanOut.org also known as Something Better. Continue reading
Health Plan Rx for the Opioid Epidemic
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