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.

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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.

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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

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

Washington’s New Opioid Prescribing Rules for Patients

This 3 minute video explains the 2018 Washington State opioid prescribing guidelines for patients and caregivers. The video features the voices of pain patients and advocates.

Funding Source:  Washington State Department of Health

Prescribe to Prevent: Prescribe Naloxone, Save a Life

The website Prescribe to Prevent was created by a group of prescribers, pharmacists, public health workers, lawyers and researchers to increase the prescribing and dispensing of naloxone kits to prevent overdose deaths. The website offers patient education materials, free online continuing medical education, and specific Continue reading

FAQs: Arizona PMP Prescriber Reports

The Arizona Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program issues reports to prescribers who are outliers compared to their peers in the number of prescriptions written for controlled substances and the number of pills dispensed per prescription. These FAQs answer prescriber questions about the report cards.

Funding Source:  Arizona Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family

Sample Prescriber Report Card

An example of a report that an outlier prescriber in Arizona might receive from the Arizona Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program. The report includes information comparing the prescriber to his or her peers on the number of prescriptions written, the quantity of pills prescribed, and information about Continue reading