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Safe Practice Recommendations for Safer Opioid Prescribing Strategies to improve technology in the clinical setting, such as EHRs, to reduce overprescribing of opioids.

Vital Signs: Changes in Opioid Prescribing in the United States, 2006–2015 – A July 2017 report from the CDC

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The State of PDMPs – brief from the American Academy of Family Physicians

State Strategies to Improve the Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs to Address Opioid and other Substance Use Disorders

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