Report from Coalition Members Attending CADCA

Seven SMART coalition members (Greg, Leslie, Casey, Suzy, Taunia, Kye and Becky) attended the national Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) conference in Kentucky, July 26th to the 31st. SMART members approved the funding of the trip with the stipulation that each attendee write a short report that focused on at least the following:

1. A short list of valuable information learned at the conference
   
2. Identify 1 to 3 ideas, from the list, that you'd like to help implement into coalition activities

Enjoy the reports.

SMART Management Team

Prescription Task Force Narrowing our Focus

During July coalition meeting we narrowed our focus down to the following general areas:

(1) Doctor Education (Addressing Provider Lack of Knowledge):

• Contracting with Health Insight to educate physicians directly
• Revising DOPL narcotic licensing test.

(2) Reduce Availability:

• Revising DOPL to allow better communication between law enforcement, and the health community
• Require doctors to run a DOPL report on all first time patients obtaining narcotics

(3) Community Norms:

• Create an education campaign like Clean out the Cabinet to change norms around prescription abuse and disposal

Do you agree with these recommendations? What would you add/remove? Add your comments to the blog. Please consider our one page fact sheets and recommendations at: http://sites.google.com/site/utahcountycoalition/data---what-we-know-1.

CRITERIA - this is hard to narrow down good ideas to a few our coalition can tackle. As you offer your suggestions consider the following (to obtain funding, each idea must pass this criteria test):

1. Is the strategy supported by the data we collect?
2. Is the strategy evidenced based? How do we know the strategy will reduce prescription abuse?
3. Is the strategy realistic considering the financial and human resources available to the coalition?
4. Does the strategy already exist or are other groups working to implement the strategy?

Thanks for your input!
SMART Management Team