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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cape Girardeau County may join a prescription-drug monitoring program that has been embraced by 32 Missouri counties and cities. The Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center Board of Trustees has ...

As discussions about the need for a prescription drug-monitoring program (PDMP) continue, advocates are urging the Legislature to pass a comprehensive statewide program. "Without a statewide PDMP, ...

The Missouri Senate approved legislation mandating the creation of a prescription drug monitoring program to help curb opioid abuse in the state, according to a report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ...