Summary In 2009, the Oregon legislature created the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), which tracks prescriptions for certain drugs dispensed by Oregon pharmacies. The database tracks ...

States that required physicians to check prescription drug monitoring programs before writing an opioid prescription saw lower rates of “physician shopping,” which is the practice of visiting several ...

State-based prescription drug monitoring programs prove helpful in reducing opioid-related deaths in the U.S., according to a study in the journal Health Affairs. Drug monitoring programs are ...

Oxycodone-related deaths dropped 25 percent after Florida implemented its Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in late 2011 as part of its response to the state's prescription drug abuse epidemic, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The State of Hawaii and Bamboo Health ™, the leader in Real-Time Care Intelligence ™, today announced their partnership to help physicians and pharmacists reduce the ...

Unlike traditional court proceedings, which are often adversarial and involve sanctioning, treatment courts are based on a nurturing, supportive, team-approach model that recognizes SUD as a disease.

A study from the American College of Toxicology identified characteristics of state prescription drug monitoring programs that can be frustrating to clinicians and prevent optimal use of the programs.

FDA inspectors warned UCSF radiopharmaceutical facility that losing environmental control could pose a serious hazard to ...

Drug Distributors Call for Nationwide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to Combat Opioid Crisis At a House Energy and Commerce (E&C) committee hearing on Tuesday, drug distribution company ...

On a cool spring evening in 2017, Law Professor Jennifer Oliva (an author of this piece) received a harrowing phone call from a stranger. “They are going to kill me,” said a man we’ll call Brian. A ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- House members on Monday voted to make Missouri the last state to adopt a prescription drug monitoring program aimed at cutting back at opioid misuse and doctor shopping.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — St. Charles County is joining a St. Louis regional drug monitoring program that seeks to reduce abuse of prescription painkillers. The St. Charles County Council voted unanimously ...