This toolkit is your comprehensive guide to safer opioid use when taking opioids for pain relief. Find out how the Opioid Safety Toolkit can help you create a safety plan and support you to make the best decisions about your health. Let's make safety a priority, together.
Crafted by consumers and health professionals
Evidence-based information
Use the interactive toolkit to develop an opioid safety plan and monitor health outcomes with opioids
For anyone prescribed opioids to manage pain, the ROOM tool can help to assess pain outcomes.
ROOM stands for Routine Opioid Outcome Monitoring and is a tool to help people who are prescribed opioid medication, to measure pain, side effects and general health outcomes.
The ROOM tool is quick and easy to fill in. It can be completed with your healthcare provider or before an appointment and used as part of a discussion about your pain management plan.
Opioid medicines can help reduce certain types of pain, such as acute pain, chronic pain and cancer pain. There are potential risks along with benefits to consider to ensure safer opioid use.
This toolkit can help navigate the safer use of prescription opioids by assisting the development of a personalised safety plan and offering tools to measure health outcomes.
