Opioid Analgesic

Resources to Help Health Care Providers Prevent Opioid Analgesic Misuse and Overdose

• From 2000 to 2015, rates of overdose death from opioid analgesics increased 300% in New York City (NYC).
• More than one overdose death involving an opioid analgesic occurred every other day on average in NYC in 2015.

Health care providers can play a central role in reversing the epidemic of opioid analgesic misuse and overdose deaths. Because of this, the Health Department has conducted several public health detailing campaigns, consisting of office-to-office educational outreach visits with physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners on judicious opioid prescribing. Brooklyn is the focus of the 2017 opioid analgesic detailing campaign. During visits, Opioid Analgesic Action Kits that contains useful provider and patient resources are being distributed, and is also available electronically below. We hope you will use the kit to help decrease opioid analgesic misuse and its health consequences among your patients.

Opioid Analgesics Action Kit (Brooklyn 2017)

Provider Resources

• Letter from the Health Commissioner (PDF)
• City Health Information: Preventing Misuse of Prescription Opioid Drugs (PDF)
• CDC's Opioid Guideline App
• Epi Data Brief: Unintentional Opioid Analgesic Poisoning (Overdose) Deaths Involving Heroin and/or Fentanyl in New York City, 2000 - 2015 (PDF)
• Brooklyn Treatment Provider Directory (PDF)
  
• Brooklyn Naloxone / Harm Reduction Palm Card (PDF)
• Naloxone Guidelines (PDF)
• New York State Opioid Prescribing Legislation (PDF)

Patient Resources

• Poster: Save a life (PDF)
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• Patient pamphlet intended to be given to patients when opioids are prescribed: Opioid Pain Relievers: What You Need To Know (PDF)
• Poster: Sometimes The Medicine Is The Problem (PDF)
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• Poster: One New Yorker Dies Every Other Day from Opioid Painkillers (PDF)
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• Buprenorphine (Suboxone): A Treatment Option For People Who Use Opioid Painkillers and Heroin (PDF)
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Other Materials

Archived Opioid Analgesics Action Kit (the Bronx 2015)

• Letter from the Health Commissioner (PDF)
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: CDC Grand Rounds: Prescription Drug Overdoses — a U.S. Epidemic
• Bronx Naloxone / Harm Reduction Palm Card (PDF)
• Bronx Treatment Provider Directory /li>
• City Health Information: Buprenorphine: An Office Based Treatment For Opioid Dependence (PDF)
• Letter from the Commissioner of Health about the Internet System for Tracking Overprescribing (I-STOP) (PDF)

Archived Opioid Analgesics Action Kit (Staten Island 2013)

• Letter from the Health Commissioner (PDF)
• Patient Resource:Overdoses from opioid painkillers kill more Staten Islanders than car accidents Poster (PDF)

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