This expansive partnership includes Community Care of North Carolina, Project Lazarus, the North Carolina Hospital Association, the North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians, local hospitals and emergency departments, local health departments, primary care doctors, faith-based programs, law enforcement and others.
CCNC has developed a series of toolkits aimed at providing information and resources to key players in chronic pain treatment, including a Primary Care Provider Toolkit that includes national best practice protocols for safe prescribing of controlled substances and alternative pain control modalities; an ED Toolkit that helps hospitals implement policies regarding prudent prescribing of narcotics; and a CCNC Care Manager Toolkit that provides tools to better manage patients who present with chronic pain.
The CPI approach is modeled on a highly successful Wilkes County overdose prevention program that generated a 47 percent reduction in the overdose death rate from 2009 to 2010.
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