| 8/1/2021 |
Wolf wants lawmakers to extend opioid emergency declaration |
Philly Tribune |
... declaration for up to 90 days and extend them without limit, and a two-thirds majority vote by lawmakers was required to end such declarations. The opioid disaster declaration widened access to the state's prescription drug monitoring program and made it easier for medical professionals to get people into drug treatment more quickly. The governor said his administration and lawmakers had worked together on the monitoring program overhaul and on ... |
| 8/1/2021 |
Wolf wants lawmakers to extend opioid emergency declaration |
Philly Tribune |
... declaration for up to 90 days and extend them without limit, and a two-thirds majority vote by lawmakers was required to end such declarations. The opioid disaster declaration widened access to the state's prescription drug monitoring program and made it easier for medical professionals to get people into drug treatment more quickly. The governor said his administration and lawmakers had worked together on the monitoring program overhaul and on ... |
| 7/30/2021 |
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist - PMOP Coordinator | Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration |
rxtimes.com |
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| 7/30/2021 |
Study: Policies reduced the amount of opioids prescribed to injured workers without eliminating access |
ucbjournal.com |
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) examines the effects of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and recent regulations limiting the duration of initial opioid prescriptions on various outcomes for workers with work-related injuries. “The policies examined were part of an extensive effort by stakeholders at local, state and national levels to address potential excessive opioid prescribing and opioid abuse,” ... |
| 7/30/2021 |
As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry |
stltoday.com |
... holds a photo of her son, Kevin Mullane — who died of a heroin overdose in 2009 at age 21. Arbini said she was elated to have Missouri finally agree to create a statewide prescription drug monitoring program, for which she had been advocating since 2011. (Sebastián Martínez Valdivia/KBIA via KHN) Sebastián Martínez Valdivia Save By Eric Berger Kaiser Health NewsST. LOUIS — Kathi ... |
| 7/30/2021 |
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (PMOP) | Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration |
rxtimes.com |
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| 7/29/2021 |
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Effects on Opioid Prescribing and Drug Overdose Mortality |
reason.org |
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 70,630 drug overdose deaths for 2019 in the United States, 70.5 percent of which were opioid-related. Amid unprecedented drug-related mortality across the entire United States, Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) are the most popular interventions states enact to address opioid addiction and overdoses. Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs allow health officials and law enforcement to review the prescribing histories among doctors ... |
| 7/27/2021 |
More Evidence That Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Might Increase Overdose Deaths |
blogspot.com |
By Jeffrey A. Singer Cato . "At a Cato Institute [policy forum] in October 2019, Columbia University public health researcher David Fink presented data showing that Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs), designed to surveil opioid prescribing by health care practitioners to their patients in pain, have no appreciable effect on the fatal or non‚Äêfatal opioid overdose rate, but may have the unintended consequence of increasing overdoses from heroin. I have ... |
| 7/27/2021 |
As Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions, Experts Worry |
Physicians Weekly |
Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction. The hairstylist turned activist estimated she made 75 two-hour trips in the past decade from her home in Fenton, a St. Louis suburb, to the state capital, Jefferson City, to convince Republican lawmakers that monitoring how ... |
| 7/27/2021 |
As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry | News & Features |
arcamax.com |
Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction.The hairstylist turned activist estimated she made 75 two-hour trips in the past decade from her home in Fenton, a St. Louis suburb, to the state capital, Jefferson City, to convince Republican lawmakers that monitoring how ... |
| 7/26/2021 |
As Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions, Experts Worry |
shepherdgazette.com |
Share Eric Berger Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction. The hairstylist turned activist estimated she made 75 two-hour trips in the past decade from her home in Fenton, a St. Louis suburb, to the state capital, Jefferson City, to convince Republican lawmakers ... |
| 7/26/2021 |
As Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions, Experts Worry |
fiorreports.com |
Share Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction. The hairstylist turned activist estimated she made 75 two-hour trips in the past decade from her home in Fenton, a St. Louis suburb, to the state capital, Jefferson City, to convince Republican lawmakers that monitoring ... |
| 7/26/2021 |
As Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions, Experts Worry |
americanhealthcarejournal.com |
Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction. The hairstylist turned activist estimated she made 75 two-hour trips in the past decade from her home in Fenton, a St. Louis suburb, to the state capital, Jefferson City, to convince Republican lawmakers that monitoring how ... |
| 7/26/2021 |
As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry |
kmov.com |
KHN) -- Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction. The hairstylist turned activist estimated she made 75 two-hour trips in the past decade from her home in Fenton, a St. Louis suburb, to the state capital, Jefferson City, to convince Republican lawmakers that monitoring ... |
| 7/26/2021 |
As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry |
therolladailynews.com |
As holdout Missouri joins nation in monitoring opioid prescriptions, experts worry Eric Berger This story was originally published by Kaiser Health News . Kathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up to the other 49 states and approved a statewide prescription drug monitoring program this June in an attempt to curb opioid addiction. The hairstylist turned activist estimated she made 75 two-hour trips in the past decade ... |
| 7/23/2021 |
Holdout Missouri Joins Nation in Monitoring Opioid Prescriptions |
U.S. News & World Report |
Kathi Arbini of Fenton, Mo., holds a photo of her son, Kevin Mullane, who died of a heroin overdose in 2009 at age 21. Arbini said she was elated to have Missouri finally agree to create a statewide prescription drug monitoring program, for which she had been advocating since 2011. (Sebastián Martínez Valdivia/KBIA)By Eric BergerKathi Arbini said she felt elated when Missouri finally caught up ... |
| 7/20/2021 |
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Mandates and Opioids Dispensed Following ED Visits for Patients With Sickle Cell Disease or Cancer With Bone Metastasis |
jamanetwork.com |
Estimated mean probabilities of opioid dispensing following an emergency department (ED) encounter by patients with sickle cell disease or cancer with bone metastasis, conditional on exposure to no prescription drug monitoring program mandate, noncomprehensive, or comprehensive mandates, based on a difference-in-differences analysis including 18 345 ED encounters by 6239 patients with SCD and 26 427 ED encounters by 14 389 patients with cancer with bone metastasis in 2011-2017 ... |
| 7/17/2021 |
Design and Evaluation of a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program for Chinese Patent Medicine based on Knowledge Graph |
hindawi.com |
Innovative Methods and Technologies for Efficacy Evaluation of Traditional Medicine [View this Special Issue] Research Article Open Access Wangping Xiong, Jun Cao, Xian Zhou, Jianqiang Du, Bin Nie, Zhijun Zeng, Tianci Li, "Design and Evaluation of a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program for Chinese Patent Medicine based on Knowledge Graph", Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 9970063, 8 pages, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/9970063 Design and Evaluation of a Prescription Drug Monitoring ... |
| 7/16/2021 |
Four Bilirakis Bills to Protect Vulnerable Populations Move One Step Closer to Passage |
US House of Representatives |
... The Opioid Prescription Verification Act (H.R. 2355) will strengthen electronic prescribing and verification practices at pharmacies and build off of work that Bilirakis did in the SUPPORT Act to improve the use of electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs across the health care system. “ Many of my constituents are overdosing and dying at alarming rates. We have to take practical steps to put additional safeguards in place in order to ... |
| 7/16/2021 |
Facility Program Manager, Pharmacist | Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration |
rxtimes.com |
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