Development and Pilot Randomized Control Trial of a Text Message Intervention to Facilitate Secure Storage and Disposal of Prescription Opioids to Prevent Diversion and Misuse

The proposed study is relevant to public health because the development and implementation of a text message intervention is expected to increase secure storage of opioid analgesics during treatment and disposal following treatment. Subsequently, there would be a decrease in the quantity of excess prescription opioids available in the home to be diverted for nonmedical use. The proposed research is relevant to NIDA's priorities to develop and implement theoretically-based, prevention interventions that can be implemented in healthcare settings to elicit population-level impacts to address the opioid crisis.

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