Objective List

Objective List

This list provides an alternate form of navigation (rather than zooming in on the strategy maps) to find Objectives

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Minimize People Starting to Misuse Opioid Drugs

Reduce Access to Opioids

• Educate the Community on Opioid Risks & Alternatives
• Improve Safe Storage of Prescription Drugs
• Expand Prescription Drug Take-back & Disposal Programs
• Coordinate & Improve Efforts to Reduce Illegal Access & Sales of Prescription Opioids
  • Eliminate “Pill Mills”
  • Eliminate Counterfeit Prescriptions
  • Reduce Theft of Pills from pharmacies
  • Minimize Inappropriate Internet Purchases
• Expand Efforts to Disrupt the Supply of Heroin & Synthetic Opioids to the Community
  • Increase Law Enforcement Efforts to Reduce Illegal Opioid Sales
  • Minimize Availability and Purchase of Fake Pills
  • Reduce Access to Precursor Ingredients for Fake Pills
  • Increase Efforts to Detect Fentanyl Coming Into the Region

Reduce prescription of Opioids

• Expand & Enhance Chronic Pain Prevention & Management
  • Expand Programs & Options for Chronic Pain Prevention
  • Expand Access to Less Addictive Pain Medications
  • Increase Tapering off Opioid Pain Medication
  • Increase Access to Alternative Therapies to Treat Pain
• Expand & Enhance Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
  • Improve Ease of Use of PDMPs for Physicians
  • Develop Consistent Protocols for PDMP Monitoring
  • Improve Use of PDMP to Identify Patients Misusing Opioids
  • Improve Use of PDMP to Identify Providers who OverPrescribe Opioids
  • Increase Interstate Exchange of PDMP Data
• Improve Prescribing Practices
  • Expand Partial-fill Prescriptions
  • Use DNA Testing & Precision Pain Medication
  • Increase Electronic Prescribing
• Improve Practices among Specific Prescriber Groups
  • Dentist
  • Oral Surgeons
  • ER Doctors
  • Acute Care
  • Primary Care Physicians
  • Orthopedic Surgeons
  • Pain Centers
• Improve Insurance & Pharmacy Policies & Practices
• Improve Professional Training on Opioid Risks & Alternative Pain Management Approaches

Improve Protective Factors to Minimize Desire to Misuse Opioids

• • Empower & Strengthen Parents & Caregivers
  • Expand School-based Prevention Programs
  • Increase Involvement in After-School & Faith-based Activities
  • Highlight Positive Role Models & Pathways
  • Expand Positive Recreation Opportunities
  • Train Youth in How to Resist Peer Pressure to Try Drugs
  • Improve Job Opportunities
  • Improve Detection & Treatment of Mental Health Conditions
• Reduce Use of Gateway Drugs
• Increase Awareness of the Risks & the Crisis

Enable People Who Start Misusing Opioids to Quickly Quit

• Expand SBIRT Program
• Improve & Expand Screening & Testing for Misuse
• Become a Trauma-Informed Community

Improve Treatment & Enable Recovery for People with SUDs

• Improve Links to Treatment after Non-Lethal Overdoses