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DocuSign Envelope ID:040056EC-0D41-4D98-9C65-E01AE876A6AB <br /> being removed from the home and/or placed in foster care due to custodial opioid <br /> use. <br /> PART TWO: PREVENTION <br /> F. PREVENT OVER-PRESCRIBING AND ENSURE APPROPRIATE <br /> PRESCRIBING AND DISPENSING OF OPIOIDS <br /> Support efforts to prevent over-prescribing and ensure appropriate prescribing and <br /> dispensing of opioids through evidence-based or evidence-informed programs or <br /> strategies that may include, but are not limited to,the following: <br /> 1. Funding medical provider education and outreach regarding best prescribing <br /> practices for opioids consistent with the Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for <br /> Chronic Pain from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including <br /> providers at hospitals (academic detailing). <br /> 2. Training for health care providers regarding safe and responsible opioid <br /> prescribing, dosing, and tapering patients off opioids. <br /> 3. Continuing Medical Education (CME) on appropriate prescribing of opioids. <br /> 4. Providing Support for non-opioid pain treatment alternatives, including training <br /> providers to offer or refer to multi-modal, evidence-informed treatment of pain. <br /> 5. Supporting enhancements or improvements to Prescription Drug Monitoring <br /> Programs ("PDMPs"), including, but not limited to, improvements that: <br /> 1. Increase the number of prescribers using PDMPs; <br /> 2. Improve point-of-care decision-making by increasing the quantity, quality, <br /> or format of data available to prescribers using PDMPs, by improving the <br /> interface that prescribers use to access PDMP data, or both; or <br /> 3. Enable states to use PDMP data in support of surveillance or intervention <br /> strategies, including MOUD referrals and follow-up for individuals <br /> identified within PDMP data as likely to experience OUD in a manner that <br /> complies with all relevant privacy and security laws and rules. <br /> 6. Ensuring PDMPs incorporate available overdose/naloxone deployment data, <br /> including the United States Department of Transportation's Emergency Medical <br /> Technician overdose database in a manner that complies with all relevant privacy <br /> and security laws and rules. <br /> 7. Increasing electronic prescribing to prevent diversion or forgery. <br /> 8. Educating dispensers on appropriate opioid dispensing. <br /> 8 <br />