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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.
A DEA number (DEA Registration Number) is an identifier assigned to a health care provider (such as a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, optometrist, podiatrist, dentist, or veterinarian) by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration allowing them to write prescriptions for controlled substances.
A US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) database tracking every opioid pill sold in the United States from 2006 through 2012 was made public in 2019. The database "attributed the vast majority of the 76 billion opioid pills produced and shipped from 2006 through 2012 to three companies", one of which was SpecGx, a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt.
The opioid epidemic took hold in the U.S. in the 1990s. Percocet, OxyContin and Opana became commonplace wherever chronic pain met a chronic lack of access to quality health care, especially in Appalachia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls the prescription opioid epidemic the worst of its kind in U.S. history.
opiate Codeine [2] 9334 opiate Dihydroetorphine [3] 9190 opiate Ethylmorphine [2] 9059 opiate Etorphine hydrochloride [4] 9640 opiate Granulated opium [2] 9193 opiate Hydrocodone [2] 9150 opiate Hydromorphone [2] 9260 opiate Metopon [2] 9300 opiate Morphine [2] 9668 opiate Noroxymorphone [5] 9610 opiate Opium extracts [2] 9620 opiate Opium ...
Missouri and Kansas will receive a total of nearly $33.7 million in grants to fight the opioid crisis and support people in recovery as part of an $1.5 billion effort to address the overdose ...
In 2012, as a result of the Sentinel report, the US Senate Finance Committee started investigating the tight relationship of various tax-exempt organizations, including FSMB, with opioid manufacturers. That same year, the FSMB adopted a policy which precluded it from accepting any grants or funding from pharmaceutical companies. [22] [23]
NPI data is downloadable from CMS. The downloadable database was updated monthly until December 2012, and has been issued weekly since. A data structure file is available separately from CMS. [6] As of June 2024, the file download size is 947.84 MB, and the raw database file (npidata_pfile_20050523-20240512.csv) is 9.3 GB when extracted. [7]