Prescription Drugs

Reducing the Risks of Opioids

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, October 2017 This module will cover the CDC-recommendations for reducing the risks of opioids. You will have the opportunity to learn more about strategies to mitigate risk to your patients taking opioids. You will also have...

Communicating with Patients

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, October 2017 This module will help increase clinicians’ knowledge of CDC recommended strategies for communicating effectively with patients about pain management and opioid use. You will learn the importance of communicating...

Treating Chronic Pain Without Opioids

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 2017 This module will look at the CDC recommended options for treating chronic pain without opioids. You will have the opportunity to examine the benefits and expected outcomes of prescribing nonopioid medications and...

Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Recommendations from CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 2017 This module will look at the CDC recommendations regarding the prescription of opioids for chronic pain. Given that it is sometimes hard to determine when acute pain becomes chronic pain, recommendations are also...

RI Permanent Drug Disposal Sites

Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals, October 2019 This flyer lists the permanent drug disposal sites as of October 2019 in Rhode Island along with their location and phone number.

DEA Student Athletes and Opioids Poster

The Drug Enforcement Administration, 2019 Prescription opioid addiction – stemming from misuse – has hit the nation hard in recent years. Unfortunately, high school student-athletes can be especially vulnerable to prescription painkiller misuse. This poster encourages...

Opioid Information for Patients

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017 Living with chronic pain can be devastating, and effective pain management is important to getting your life back. It is essential that you and your doctor discuss treatment options, carefully considering all of the...

CDC Opioid Overdose Homepage

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018 The CDC is committed to an opioid overdose prevention approach that protects the public’s health and prevents opioid overdose deaths. On this homepage, you will find a multitude of opioid overdose prevention resources...

U.S. Opioid Prescribing Rate Maps

Centers for disease control and Prevention, 2018  The data in the maps show the geographic distribution in the United States, at both state and county levels, of retail opioid prescriptions dispensed per 100 persons per year from 2006–2017. Data are displayed within...

COCA Call Webinar Series

Centers for disease Control and Prevention, 2016 CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) partnered with CDC’s Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) and the University of Washington to present a webinar series about the CDC...