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5 resources that help physicians address opioid Rx issues

The data doesn’t lie—with 44 people die each day from an overdose of opioids. The Providers’ Clinical Support System for Opioid Therapies offers five online resources to help physicians address prescription issues for opioids in their daily practice.

Behavioral Health
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What physicians can do to stop the opioid overdose epidemic

Physicians see people affected by the opioid overdose epidemic on a regular basis. Eliminating this public health epidemic means learning what we can do to deliver compassionate, high-quality and personalized care to those in acute and chronic pain.

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Physician groups band together to address America’s opioid crisis

Opioid abuse is a serious public health problem that has reached crisis levels across the United States.

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Opioid overdose epidemic worsens: How physicians can help

The nation’s opioid epidemic is worsening. Physicians individually can take action to prevent opioid abuse in their patient populations, including following appropriate prescribing practices using PDMPs and supporting overdose prevention efforts.

Behavioral Health
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From Rx monitoring to treatment: Solutions for overdose epidemic

Physicians at the AMA Annual Meeting underscored their commitment to reverse the opioid overdose epidemic. Among the policies adopted to this end were ones that called for increased Rx monitoring and coverage for addiction treatment.

Behavioral Health
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6 things you can do to prevent opioid abuse

Deaths from heroin also have increased substantially testified AMA Board of Trustees Secretary Patrice A. Harris, MD, before a congressional committee. She emphasized six key actions physicians can take to prevent opioid abuse.

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Stakeholders identify prescribing and dispensing challenges

The AMA and 16 other organizations representing physicians, pharmacists, and other stakeholders developed a document identifying the challenges of prescribing and dispensing medicines such as opioids.

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AMA helps stop inapt prescribing, dispensing of controlled substances

The AMA has joined with organizations representing physicians and other groups to develop a study highlighting warning signs of prescription drug abuse.

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Safety leaders, physicians seek stronger state Rx efforts

More than 150 medical, public health, patient and health care organizations came together to ask the nation’s governors for increased emphasis on overdose prevention and treatment as part of the effort to combat prescription drug abuse, misuse, overdose and death.

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