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This resource offers guidance for prevention professionals addressing prescription opioid misuse. It helps practitioners understand state-specific regulations, educational requirements, and collaboration opportunities to enhance prescriber education programs. By answering key questions such as who can prescribe opioids in your state and what resources are available, this tool equips professionals to collaborate effectively with primary care.
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Recognizing the vital role prescribers play in mitigating prescription opioid misuse, this resource explores the importance of educating prescribers on safe opioid prescribing practices, outlines key goals for prescriber education, and provides foundation information that prevention professionals need to advocate for and facilitate prescriber education in their communities.
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This grantee success story exemplifies the collaborative efforts of prevention practitioners in Franklin County as they address the opioid crisis through early childhood interventions. They've achieved significant milestones by embracing a deliberate, inclusive, and collaborative approach that places the experiences of community members with lived experience at the heart of their strategies.
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This tool provides examples of state- and local-level opportunities for collaborating with medical professionals in various sectors to plan and support prescriber education programming.
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This tool presents the different sectors prevention practitioners may want to engage in opioid overdose prevention efforts, along with opportunities for meaningful engagement.
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This grantee success story showcases the collaborative efforts of the Opioid Prevention and Treatment Task Force in combating opioid misuse in the Carolinas. With a particular focus on LGBTQ+ and PLWHA communities, the story highlights their success through champion support, data-driven collaboration, and a transition from competition to fruitful collaboration.
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This tool helps practitioners in locating data on risk factors for opioid overdose and offers insights into various risk factors, data sources, and indicators related to opioid use and misuse. It helps practitioners better understand and target their prevention efforts, identify new data sources, find proxy measures for specific factors when direct data is unavailable, and identify potential partners who collect relevant data.
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This tool presents case examples of fictional communities each dealing with distinct challenges related to opioid misuse and overdoses. It outlines how these communities applied the five steps of the SPF to tackle their opioid-related issues, providing insights into addressing the epidemic and informing future strategic planning efforts for prevention practitioners.
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This resource examines cultural-specific risk and protective factors related to substance misuse and mental well-being in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. It provides research findings to assist in culturally responsive prevention planning, emphasizing the importance of understanding and respecting their diverse cultural backgrounds and practices.
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This tool provides a comprehensive guide on the use and accessibility of naloxone, a life-saving medication for reversing opioid overdoses. It discusses the current state of naloxone access, including types of access laws, liability protections, and the future of over-the-counter availability. The guide also addresses non-legal barriers to naloxone access, such as knowledge gaps, attitudes, values, beliefs, and logistical challenges. Additionally, it outlines strategies to overcome these barriers and considers additional factors like polysubstance use and naloxone dosing.