If you would like to get involved in preventing prescription drug abuse, consider the following:
1. Promote Utah’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). You can find out more about this program by clicking here. Encourage doctors to use DOPL
2. Support Utah legislation surrounding pain pill abuse by writing to your legislator.
Click on this website: http://le.utah.gov/GIS/findDistrict.jsp, enter your address, click on your representative and senator and obtain their email address.
3. For promotional educational materials including videos, books, brochures, pamphlets, etc click here. These can be used in the 
classroom, for seniors in retirement homes, physicians, and more. Many items can be downloaded for free, but some need to be purchased.
4. A toolkit is available specifically on Maximizing Your Role as a Teen Influencer: What You Can Do to Help Prevent Teen Prescription Drug Abuse. The presenter’s guide can be found by visiting the following site: http://www.talkaboutrx.org/maximizing_role.jsp
It includes:
*A power point presentation
*Presenter’s checklist
*Role Play scenarios
*Key messages
*Printable PDS handouts
*and more!
5. Print a home medical cabinet inventory card. Fill this out and keep track of your medications to ensure they are not being taken from your medicine cabinet unknowingly. You can obtain this inventory card from: http://cmif.pictco.org/PDFs/HomeMedInventoryCard.pdf
