Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 9—After a bruising legislative battle that took years, a statewide prescription drug monitoring program finally is ready to ...

The next webinar in the 2026 Knock Out Opioid Abuse Day Learning Series will examine the role of prescription drug monitoring in addressing the opioid crisis. The free session, “Prescription Drug ...

To facilitate safer prescribing of opioids and other drugs, nearly all states operate prescription monitoring programs (PMPs), which collect and share data on controlled substance dispensing. Policy ...

Study population were Medicare decedents who were age 66 years or older, diagnosed with breast, colorectal, lung, or prostate cancer, and died of cancer in 2011-2019. This cross-sectional study used ...

Back in 2014, when he was the medical director of the opioid treatment program at the Spokane Regional Health District, Dr. Matt Layton saw firsthand just how useful Washington state's prescription ...

Saint Louis University's Liz Chiarello, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, recently published an article in the American Sociological Review. The article explores pharmacists' use of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The State of Hawaii and Bamboo Health ™, the leader in Real-Time Care Intelligence ™, today announced their partnership to help physicians and pharmacists reduce the ...

Restricting access to high-risk medications via a real-time prescription monitoring program such as Victoria's SafeScript may help reduce inappropriate use, but integrated mental health and drug ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Within the coming weeks, Missouri health care providers will be able to track a patient’s prescriptions with the goal of preventing overdoses and opioid abuse. Missouri is the ...

A new version of the state’s prescription monitoring system is scheduled to go live next week after more than $6 million in upgrades, according to the Massachusetts Medical Society, which described ...

Forty states mandate that providers query their patients’ prescription histories in the state’s prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) before prescribing controlled substances. However, little is ...