Prescribe Safe: Combating Opioid Abuse
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"Montage Health recognized that Monterey County, California needed a way to control abuse and misuse of prescription drugs. It had become a huge problem, with many people coming to the emergency department for pain medications or arriving after an overdose.
In partnership with 20 other organizations, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, part of Montage Health, helped develop Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative (MCPSI), also known as Prescribe Safe. The initiative aims to improve safe use of prescription drugs; reduce inappropriate prescribing of prescription pain medications and sedatives; increase access to treatment for addiction; and improve education to the public and medical community of the dangers of prescription drugs.
Since 2014, Prescribe Safe developed these interventions:
• Educating doctors, pharmacists and patients
• Safe pain relief alternatives
• Reducing exposure to opioids
• Partnering with law enforcement
• Reducing overdoses
• Community outreach"
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