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We need prescription monitoring program

Publication:

Concord Monitor

Publication Date:

August 15, 2011

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Tags: deaths, doctor shopping, editorials, New Hampshire, pain management, PMP startup

Which indicators can public health authorities use to monitor prescription drug abuse and evaluate the impact of regulatory measures? Controlling High Dosage Buprenorphine abuse.

Author:

Pauly, V., Frauger, E., Pradel, V., Rouby, F., Berbis, J., Natali, F., Reggio, P., Coudert, H., Micallef, J., Thirion, X.

Publication Date:

Jan 1, 2011

Publication:

Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 113(1):29-36.

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Tags: buprenorphine, doctor shopping, France, journal article, regulating medical practice, thresholds

Gov. Scott seeks to kill drug database that would combat pill mills

Publication:

Miami Herald

Publication Date:

02.08.11

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Accidental overdoses from legal drugs

Publication:

State News

Publication Date:

February 2009

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Tags: doctor shopping, interstate data sharing, news articles, overdoses and deaths, PMP impact, PMP operations, state comparisons

Prescription monitoring programs: do they work?

Author:

Gilson, A.

Publication Date:

2010

Publication:

Medscape Today

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Tags: doctor shopping, false positives, journal articles, PMP impact, PMP operations, prescribing practices, pseudoaddiction, secure prescription forms, substitution effect

Prescription for peril: how insurance fraud finances theft and abuse of addictive prescription drugs

Publication Date:

2007

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Tags: case investigation, celebrities, demographic characteristics, diversion, doctor shopping, epidemiology, fraud, Internet, law enforcement, methadone, Oxycontin, pain management, pill mills, pill pushers, PMP impact, Vicodin, white paper, Xanax

Legislature approves bill to curb 'doctor shopping'

Publication:

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Publication Date:

5/1/10

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States want to share patient Rx use to curb abuse

Publication Date:

5/2/10

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Pill pushing physicians

Publication:

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Publication Date:

5/23/10

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Tags: diversion, doctor shopping, medical boards, methadone, news articles, opioid abuse, overdoses and deaths, Oxycontin, pill pushers, PMP startup, prescribing practices, Wisconsin, Xanax

Suspended state program may have flagged rogue physician

Publication Date:

6/3/2010

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Tags: case investigation, diversion, doctor shopping, law enforcement, news articles, PMP funding, social costs, Washington

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