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Using prescription opioids as a case study, we used RxNorm application program interface (API) to map all FDA-approved prescription opioids described in FAERS AE reports to their equivalent RxNorm Concept Unique Identifiers (RxCUIs) and RxNorm names. The different names of the opioids were then extracted, and their usage frequencies were calculated in collection of more than 14.9 million AE reports for 13 FDA-approved prescription opioid classes, reported over 17\u00a0years. The results showed that a significant number of different names were consistently used for opioids in FAERS reports, with 2,086 different names (out of 7,892) used at least three times and 842 different names used at least ten times for each of the 92 RxNorm names of FDA-approved opioids. Our method of using RxNorm API mapping was confirmed to be efficient and accurate and capable of reducing the heterogeneity of prescription opioid names significantly in the AE reports in FAERS; meanwhile, it is expected to have a broad application to different sets of drug names from any database where drug names are diverse and unnormalized. 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