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  2. Prescription monitoring program - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 55th Oklahoma Legislature - Wikipedia

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    Drugs - HB 1948 requires doctors to check a Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) database before writing prescriptions for potentially dangerous and addictive drugs like oxycodone. Public safety - HB 1965 makes driving while texting a primary offense in Oklahoma with a fine of $100 for a first offense.

  4. Oklahoma County stepping in after state cuts funding for ...

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    The Oklahoma County Social Services Department, with 14 employees and a $2.2 million annual budget, closed Nov. 1 at 5905 N Classen Blvd., Suite 302. Oklahoma law change 'really dedicated the ...

  5. Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control

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    The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN), often shortened to Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, is an agency of the government of Oklahoma charged with minimizing the abuse of controlled substances through law enforcement measures directed primarily at drug trafficking, illicit drug manufacturing, and major suppliers of illicit drugs.

  6. Pill mill - Wikipedia

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    In Kentucky, for example, a law to improve monitoring of prescription practices, known as the Pill Mill Bill (KRS 218A.175 et seq.), has been in effect since 2012. [20] By 2012, 41 U.S. states had implemented such prescription monitoring program, and by 2019 all states except Missouri had implemented such programs. [21]

  7. Prescription drug overuse - Wikipedia

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    Prescription drug overuse or non-medical prescription drug use is the use of prescription medications that is more than the prescribed amount, regardless of whether the original medical reason to take the drug is legitimate. [1] [2] A prescription drug is a drug substance prescribed by a doctor and intended to for individual use only. [3]

  8. Oklahoma State Department of Health - Wikipedia

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    The department is led by the Secretary of Health and the Commissioner of Health. Oklahoma law requires the Commissioner of Health to have professional expertise as any of the following: 1) an actively licensed physician (MD/DO), 2) a doctoral-level degree holder in public health or public health administration, 3) a masters' degree holder with a minimum of five years experience in ...

  9. IUD Insertion Pain Is Borderline Unbearable. This New Tool ...

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    After an incredibly painful and traumatic IUD insertion in 2017, which involved a medical tool getting stuck on her labial tissue, 30-year-old Taylor Townsell was desperate for something ...