{"id":3143,"date":"2020-09-14T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=3143"},"modified":"2025-08-07T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:29:15","slug":"start-talking-consent-form","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/practice-resources\/regulatory-compliance\/prescribing\/start-talking-consent-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Talking Consent Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1698696973333{margin-top: -40px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-color: #009ba7 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;white-text&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Start Talking Consent Form<\/h1>\n<p><nav  aria-label=\"breadcrumb\"><ol class=\"breadcrumb\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><li class=\"breadcrumb-item active\" aria-current=\"page\" itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\"><\/li><\/ol><\/nav>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Michigan PA 246 of 2017 requires prescribers to provide Opioid Education using the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Start Talking Form (or similar) when prescribing an opioid drug. It does not have to be used when prescribing any other controlled substance that does not contain an opioid. This form must be completed and saved to the patient&#8217;s medical record only when prescribing an Opioid drug.<\/p>\n<p>The forms are available below to download as either a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MDHHS-Opioid-Start-Talking-Form.docx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WORD VERSION<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MDHHS-Opioid-Start-Talking-Form.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF VERSION<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1698696973333{margin-top: -40px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-color: #009ba7 !important;}&#8221; el_class=&#8221;white-text&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Start Talking Consent Form [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Michigan PA 246 of 2017 requires prescribers to provide Opioid Education using the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; Start Talking Form (or similar) when prescribing an opioid drug. It does not have to be used when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":273,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","protect_children":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-11-17 08:02:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23155,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3143\/revisions\/23155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michigandental.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}