by priyatham | Feb 1, 2017 | Featured News
Dr. Murphy reported to the board that both clinic sites see roughly 100 to 120 patients per day and checks the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program database (PDMP) 20-30 times each day. However, the board points to information from the database, which is starkly...
by priyatham | Jan 24, 2017 | Prescription Advisory Blog
BMJ recently published an analysis of opioid prescribing among Medicare patients -“Opioid prescribering by multiple providers in Medicare: retrospective observational study of insurance claims”. A couple of things jumped out: Just over two thirds of opioid...
by priyatham | Jan 18, 2017 | Featured News
Fraction of Americans With Drug Addiction Receive Treatment, Surgeon General Says – NY Times The majority of people who misuse substances do not develop a use disorder, the report said. But roughly one in seven Americans — 14.6 percent of the population — are...
by priyatham | Jan 18, 2017 | Prescription Advisory Blog
Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, our Surgeon General, recently released a report that, among other things, highlights the gap between the widespread substance use disorder problems the country faces and the relatively small amount of abuse treatment. Here’s an excerpt from...
by priyatham | Jul 30, 2015 | Prescription Advisory Blog
Governor Chris Christie signed a bill on July 20th, 2015 requiring drug prescribers and pharmacists in NJ to register for the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) and to check the PMP when prescribing controlled substances. “We’re not only...
