Prescribe Safe resources for professionals

As a healthcare provider, you play a key role in Prescribe Safe, a Monterey County initiative to reduce medication misuse while promoting effective pain management. Review these valuable resources to guide your care of patients who have pain or take opioid drugs:

• Prescribe Safe: Best practices for chronic pain management [PDF]
• Prescribe Safe: Writing prescriptions in a safer way [PDF]
• Prescribing opioids for chronic pain (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website)
• Prescribing opioids after surgery (Center for Opioid Research and Education website)
• California pharmacist opioid safety training website (free hour of continuing medical education)
• California Pharmacists Association corresponding responsibility checklist [PDF]
• Website of CA Bridge, a public health initiative promoting addiction treatment at hospitals

Nasal Naloxone training video

Click here for Spanish

Additional Resources

Download resources to share with your patients about prescription medication safety and misuse:

• Breaking the stigma of opioid use disorder [PDF]
• Emergency department safe prescribing of pain medicine – English [PDF]
• Emergency department safe prescribing of pain medicine – Spanish [PDF]
• Hazards of opiates – English [PDF]
• Hazards of opiates – Spanish [PDF]
• Why am I getting a prescription for naloxone? – English [PDF]
• Why am I getting a prescription for naloxone? – Spanish [PDF]

Find more patient-focused information about prescription medication safety, including drug abuse treatment options and safe medication disposal sites.