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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.
Sanguinetti worked to have two bills signed into law: SB 772 that requires physicians to use the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program to guard against doctor shopping; and SB 336 to allow those prescribed addicted opioids for pain to exchange those prescriptions for medical cannabis. [22] [23]
More than 40% of local pharmacies in Illinois, about 300 locations, have closed since 2013 according to the National Community Pharmacists Association. It all comes as prescription drug prices ...
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]
Illinois lawmakers questioned the price of prescription drugs in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, pointing to the role of PBMs and the exploitation of the patent system by Big Pharma as key ...
Under the Medicare Prescription Drugs, Improvement and Modernization act of 2003, many beneficiaries will have more access to prescription drugs and may use more of them than they do, so a similar drug utilization review standard is needed to effectively implement the medicare prescription drug benefit. [9]
Postmarketing surveillance (PMS), also known as post market surveillance, is the practice of monitoring the safety of a pharmaceutical drug or medical device after it has been released on the market and is an important part of the science of pharmacovigilance.
In 2018, NIC acquired Leap Orbit, a prescription drug-monitoring program (PDMP). [ 10 ] In 2019, NIC acquired Complia, a Centennial, Colorado -based technology platform for government regulated cannabis .