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A TRUE COPY <br />CERTIFICATION ON LAST PAGE <br />SERVICE AGREEMENT RYAN L. BUTLER, CLERK <br />children being removed from the home and/or placed in foster care due <br />to custodial opioid use. <br />b. Approved Uses — Part Two: Prevention <br />(1) Prevent Over -prescribing and Ensure Appropriate Prescribing and <br />Dispensing of Opioids <br />Support efforts to prevent over -prescribing and ensure appropriate <br />prescribing and dispensing of opioids through evidence -based or evidence - <br />informed programs or strategies that may include, but are not limited to, the <br />following: <br />(a) Fund medical provider education and outreach regarding best prescribing <br />practices for opioids consistent with Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids <br />for Chronic Pain from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and <br />Prevention, including providers at hospitals (academic detailing). <br />(b) Training for health care providers regarding safe and responsible opioid <br />prescribing, dosing, and tapering patients off opioids. <br />(c) Continuing Medical Education (CME) on appropriate prescribing of <br />opioids. <br />(d) Support for non -opioid pain treatment alternatives, including training <br />providers to offer or refer to multi -modal, evidence -informed treatment of <br />pain. <br />(e) Support enhancements or improvements to Prescription Drug Monitoring <br />Programs (PDMPs), including but not limited to improvements that: <br />I. Increase the number of prescribers using PDMPs. <br />II. Improve point -of -care decision-making by increasing the quantity, <br />quality, or format of data available to prescribers using PDMPs, by <br />improving the interface that prescribers use to access PDMP data, <br />or both; or <br />Ill. Enable states to use PDMP data in support of surveillance or <br />intervention strategies, including MAT referrals and follow-up for <br />individuals identified within PDMP data as likely to experience <br />OUD in a manner that complies with all relevant privacy and <br />security laws and rules. <br />Incorporated Document 11 Agreement No.: AGR75-002 <br />Indian River County Board of County <br />Commissioners <br />