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medication disposal units installed in more than 3,900 CVS Pharmacy® locations nationwide</p> </li> <li><p>Donated over 1,000 safe medication disposal units to local police departments across the country</p> </li> <li><p>Pharmacist counseling for patients filling their first opioid prescription</p> </li> <li><p>Enhanced utilization management for our CVS Caremark® clients</p> </li> <li><p>Community investments to support addiction recovery and prevention</p> </li> <li><p>Opioid misuse prevention education for teens and parents</p> </li> <li><p>Access to and advocacy for opioid-overdose reversal medication</p> </li> <li><p>Ongoing advocacy to promote prescription drug monitoring programs, prescription limitations, and e-prescribing</p> </li> <li><p>Board-level oversight of our opioid-related safety, programs and initiatives</p> </li> </ul> <p>Patients and colleagues can report suspected inappropriate or illegitimate dispensing, prescribing or diversion of controlled substances, 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"super-prescriber" interventions to physicians, surgeons and dentists with outlying opioid prescribing habits; Aetna Pharmacy Controlled Substance Use programs that identity and intervene with at-risk members; and the <a href="/news/community/guardian-angel-opioids-program-reaching-members-at-critical-time.html" class="enpr__link--inline" data-analytics-name="Guardian Angel pilot program" data-linkvariant="default" data-iconposition="right" data-category="internal">Guardian Angel pilot program</a> to identify and outreach to members who recently experienced opioid-related overdose.</p> <p>Our ongoing opioid misuse prevention efforts and enterprise initiatives are supported by all parts of the company — including our CVS Pharmacy retail presence in over 9,000 communities across the country, CVS Caremark, our PBM that manages medications for more than 90 million plan members — and reach patients, providers, payors, advocacy organizations, elected leaders and community health 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