Tuesday, April 23, 2024
4/23/2024
Cherokee Nation's SPF-Rx Project, Think SMART, will serve the Cherokee Nation (CN) Reservation. The purpose is to raise awareness about the harms of sharing medication and overprescribing as well as increase utilization of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program data in the community. The 143,035 Cherokee Nation citizens residing on the Reservation will be impacted by this project. The Reservation covers all of six counties and parts of an additional eight counties in northeast Oklahoma. The counties include Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers, Sequoyah, Tulsa, Wagoner, and Washington. The goals and objectives center around the following priority issues of the Think SMART campaign: (1) Raise awareness about Safe Solutions Campaign through implementation of a media campaign to discourage medication sharing, promotion of prescription drug take backs, safe storage, and safe disposal options. (2) Increase Medical Education and PDMP awareness, through information dissemination to decrease stigma and trainings about dangers of co-dispensing controlled substances. (3) Raise Awareness about dangers of prescription drug misuse, through a multi-media campaign. (4) Raise awareness about local Recovery resources, through website outreach and collaborative agreements. (5) Raise awareness of Treatment and increase access to Narcan, through website information, trainings for physicians to become X-waivered to provide MAT services, and distribution of Narcan.
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