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Prescription Pain Medication Project

Reducing Pain Medication Deaths in Utah: Physician Education and Practice Redesign

FACTS:

In Utah, there has been a sharp rise in narcotic deaths to nearly one every day, and most of these individuals are neither addicts nor suicidal. At least half of the same individuals were on a valid prescription for a controlled substance written less than 30 days earlier, and 75% had filled a valid prescription in the past year. Methadone is causing a much higher rate of deaths than the other long acting drugs.

Health care providers in Utah are joining together to combat this problem through peer education and use of the latest guidelines and recommendations.

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Terri Rose, Project Associate - 801-892-0155, trose@healthinsight.org