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F OVER-P BING AND APP <br />DISPENSING oF oPtoDs <br />Support efforts to prevent over-prescribing and ensure appropriate prescribing and dispensing <br />of opioids through evidence-based, evidence-informed, or promising programs or strategies that <br />may include, but are not limited to, the following: <br />t. Training for health care providers regarding safe and responsible opioid prescribing, <br />dosing, and tapering patients off opioids. <br />2. Academic counter-detailing to educate prescribers on appropriated opioid <br />prescribing. <br />3. continuing Medical Education (cME) on appropriate prescribing of opioids.4. Support for non-opioid pain treatment alternatives, including training providers to <br />offer or refer to multi-modal, evidence-informed treatment of pain. <br />5. Support enhancements or improvements to Prescription Drug Monitoring programs <br />(PSMPs), including but not limited to improvements that: <br />A. lncrease the number of prescribers using pDMps; <br />B. lmprove point-of-care decision-making by increasing the quantity, quality, or <br />format of data available to prescribers using PDMPs or by improving the <br />interface that prescribers use to access pDMp data, or both; or <br />C. Enable states to use PDMP data in support of surveillance or intervention <br />strategies, including MAT referrals and follow-up for individuals identified <br />within PDMP data as likely to experience OUD. <br />6. Development and implementation of a national PDMP - Fund development of a <br />multistate/national PDMP that permits information sharing while providing <br />appropriate safeguards on sharing of private health information, including but not <br />limited to: <br />a. lntegration of PDMP data with electronic health records, overdose episodes, <br />and decision support tools for health care providers relating to OUD.b. Ensuring PDMPs incorporate available overdose/naloxone deployment data, <br />including the United States Department of Transportation's Emergency <br />Medical Technician overdose database. <br />7. lncrease electronic prescribing to prevent diversion or forgery. <br />8. Educate Dispensers on appropriate opioid dispensing. <br />G. PREVENT MISUSE OF OPIOI DS <br />Support efforts to discourage or prevent misuse of opioids through evidence-based, <br />evidence-informed, or promising programs or strategies that may include, but are not limited <br />to, the following: <br />1. Corrective advertising or affirmative public education campaigns based on evidence.2. Public education relating to drug disposal.