by priyatham | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured News
A Georgia state bill requiring healthcare providers to log opioid prescriptions in a state database passed a committee vote last week. The bill would make healthcare providers criminally liable for failing to keep track of the opioid prescriptions they write. View...
by priyatham | Feb 10, 2017 | Featured News
Twelve states have more opioid prescriptions than people Not every state has seen an equal rise in opioid use. In Hawaii, doctors wrote 52 opioid prescriptions for every 100 people in 2012, the least of any state according to a 2014 CDC study. In Alabama, it was...
by priyatham | Feb 9, 2017 | Prescription Advisory Blog
Route 50 talks about the importance of maps in telling the story of the opioid epidemic and how it can help public officials in particular drive home the point. Sometimes a picture is worth far more than 1,000 words. One of the challenges I see is the huge amount of...
by priyatham | Feb 9, 2017 | Featured News
In the process of reporting on the nationwide opioid crisis, there’s one common refrain that surfaces in conversations more than any other: “We aren’t going to arrest our way out of this problem.” But, while there is overall consensus that the criminalization of drug...
by priyatham | Feb 1, 2017 | Prescription Advisory Blog
Here is an example of the Board of Medical Examiners using PDMP history in the complaint process resulting in the practice shutting down. The record of PDMP checks is there, and a few states are starting to look at their mandated use requirements and the gaps between...
