Prioritize opioid abuse in your services
While people from all socioeconomic backgrounds struggle with opioid addiction, individuals living below the NPPS experience more barriers (e.g., lack of insurance, financial hardship) to obtaining intervention services.
Develop an aggressive and patient-informed methodology to opioid addiction response.
To get started:
Review best practices to adopt parameters for prescribing opioids and find alternatives for pain alleviation.
Address incentives that your organization might receive for prescribing opioids.
Conduct outreach to identify addiction challenges, such as physical dependence or social determinants of health factors, and begin support/interventions as needed.
Operate campaigns that reduce the stigma of opioid addiction to encourage treatment.
Best Practices / Innovative Programs
National Rural Health Association provides a list of suggested s
