Mandatory Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Prescription Drug Abuse
Journal of policy analysis and management, 2017 Despite the significant cost of prescription (Rx) drug abuse and calls from policymakers for effective interventions, there is limited research on the effects of policies intended to limit such abuse. This study estimates the effects of prescription drug
Dhaval Dave, Anca Grecu, Henry Saffer
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SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022 Background: Migrant populations are less likely to use health services or obtain prescription drug coverage in Canada, compared to their non-migrant counterparts. This research examines factors that influence migrants' access to prescription drugs.
Valentina Antonipillai +3 more
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs - Friend or Folly in Addressing the Opioid-Overdose Crisis? [PDF]
N Engl J Med, 2019 Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Virtually every U.S. state has implemented a PDMP to address high-risk opioid-prescribing and opioid-seeking behaviors.
Haffajee RL.
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Four States With Robust Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduced Opioid Dosages. [PDF]
Health Aff (Millwood), 2018 State prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) aim to reduce risky controlled-substance prescribing, but early programs had limited impact. Several states implemented robust features in 2012-13, such as mandates that prescribers register with the ...
Haffajee RL +5 more
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An inevitable wave of prescription drug monitoring programs in the context of prescription opioids: pros, cons and tensions [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: In an effort to control non-medical use and/or medical abuse of prescription drugs, particularly prescription opioids, electronic prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) have been introduced in North-American countries, Australia and ...
Islam, M. Mofizul, McRae, Ian S.
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Prescription drug monitoring programs and neonatal outcomes [PDF]
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019 Abstract Over the last two decades, the number of delivering mothers using or dependent on opiates has increased dramatically, giving rise to a five-fold increase in the proportion of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). First, the current study documents NAS trends in the United States and their substantial variation across states ...
Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Ning Zhang
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Implementation Of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Associated With Reductions In Opioid-Related Death Rates. [PDF]
Health Aff (Millwood), 2016 Patrick SW, Fry CE, Jones TF, Buntin MB.
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Assessing The Impact Of State Policies For Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs On High-Risk Opioid Prescriptions. [PDF]
Health Aff (Millwood), 2018 Policies and practices have proliferated to optimize prescribers' use of their states' prescription drug monitoring programs, which are statewide databases of controlled substances dispensed at retail pharmacies.
Bao Y +5 more
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The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Prescriptions and Heroin Crime Rates
, 2017 Justine Mallatt
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Evidenced-Based Opioid Prescribing Recommendations Following Hand and Upper-Extremity Surgery
Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online, 2022 The United States’ opioid epidemic has taken an immense toll over the past 2 decades when assessed by morbidities, mortalities, and economic costs. Prescription opioids are a substantial contribution to this public health emergency, and it is critical ...
Alexander J. Adams, MD +1 more
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