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Prescription drug monitoring programs, or PDMPs, are an example of one initiative proposed to alleviate effects of the opioid crisis. [1] The programs are designed to restrict prescription drug abuse by limiting a patient's ability to obtain similar prescriptions from multiple providers (i.e. “doctor shopping”) and reducing diversion of controlled substances. This is meant to reduce risk ...
Pill mill. A pill mill is an illegal facility that resembles a regular pain clinic, but regularly prescribes painkillers (narcotics) without sufficient medical history, physical examination, diagnosis, medical monitoring, or documentation. Clients of these facilities usually receive prescriptions only against cash.
Drug diversion. Drug diversion is a medical and legal concept involving the transfer of any legally prescribed controlled substance from the individual for whom it was prescribed to another person for any illicit use. [1] [2] The definition varies slightly among different jurisdictions, but the transfer of a controlled substance alone usually ...
The Food and Drug Administration in March approved selling the overdose-reversal drug Narcan without a prescription, a move long sought by advocates to improve access to the life-saving drug.
Following the implementation of pill mill laws and prescription drug monitoring programs in Florida, there was a large decline in opioid prescriptions written by high-risk prescribers (those prescribing the top 5th of opioids by volume).
Florida sued federal health officials on Wednesday, accusing them of stalling the state's plan to import lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has filed a lawsuit alleging that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not complied with a public-records request about the state’s proposed program to ...
The FDA's budget for approving, labeling, and monitoring drugs is roughly $290 million per year [citation needed]. The safety team monitors the effects of more than 3,000 prescription drugs on 200 million people with a budget of about $15 million a year [citation needed] .