Patient Education & Prevention

The Prevention and Safe Pain Management working group, part of the Coalition for Model Opioid Practices in Health Systems, with funding from the Division of Public Health Injury and Violence Prevention Branch created materials for patients and prescribers. These materials promote safe pain management and storage for patients prescribed an opioid and strategies for preventing addiction, such as promoting treatment alternatives and best practices in opioid prescribing.

Learn more about opioids, tapering, and naloxone through these patient education videos. All videos are free and available for public use. Through this poster, patients learn about alternatives to opioids and options they have for pain management. All materials are free and available for public use. See how patient mapping visually shows the unique experiences and perspectives of patients with chronic pain and of the providers who care for them.