Opioid Safety

Webinar — Opioid Safety Coalitions: Setting Up Your Coalition for Success

Organizing your coalition is a critical first step on the path to success. In this webinar, hear from peers who have formed coalitions, recruited participants, and set up successful structures.

Rescue Drug Can Save Lives If More Lay People Learn How to Administer It

A San Joaquin County paramedic explains what we can expect if powerful emergency medication becomes readily available to nonmedical people.

Events — Opioid Safety Coalitions: Bringing Clinicians Together Around Common Prescription Guidelines

Engaging clinicians in agreeing to a community standard for opioid prescribing is critical to securing buy-in and follow through. Two events are designed to help you learn from peers who have secured consensus on safe prescribing guidelines.

February 3, 2016

Office Hours — Opioid Safety Coalitions: Tips for Engaging Your Community in March

February 3, 2016

March is California Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month. Resources to help you use this month to engage your community, pass a resolution, host events with advocates, etc., are compiled below.

Don’t Let Zeal for Stopping Opioid Epidemic Create a New Class of Refugee

January 14, 2016

CHCF's director of High-Value Care argues that the pendulum must not swing too far in the health care system's battle against misuse of prescription painkillers.

November 3, 2015

Webinar — Opioid Safety Coalitions: Kick-Off Webinar

November 3, 2015

Following a competitive RFP process, selected grantees met to kick off this project. See a recording and the presentation slides from the November 3 kick-off meeting.

California Steps Up to Respond to the Opioid Addiction Epidemic

October 6, 2015

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, held on September 26, recognizes that unused drugs pose health risks to people who take them without prescriptions. Innovative local efforts in California are reducing the misuse of these medications.

October 1, 2015

Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE) Training

Behavioral Health

October 1, 2015

This free CME event is designed for doctors, advance practice clinicians, and pharmacists, and covers pain management and safe opioid prescribing practices.

September 28, 2015

Integrated Clinics for High Utilizers Conference

Behavioral Health

September 28, 2015

This two-day training focused on creating integrated systems of care and new payment models for patients with high emergency department use due to addiction, opioid dependence, and/or severe mental illness.

Opioid Overuse Webinar Series

The misuse of prescription painkillers (opioids) is a significant public health problem. Three webinars offer help to clinics, plans, and residency programs.

When the Prescription Becomes the Problem

People are getting sicker — and even dying — from the painkillers prescribed by their physicians. What is the medical community doing about this epidemic?

October 23, 2013

Webinar — Ensuring Safe and Appropriate Prescription Opioid Use

October 23, 2013

Hear how the Southern California Permanente Medical Group has diminished the misuse of prescription painkillers, particularly opioids, thereby reducing deaths and costs to the health care system.