Background Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are used to mitigate harms
from high-risk medicines including misuse, prescription shopping, overdoses, and death …

Drug, and specifically opioid-related, overdoses remain a major public health problem in the
United States. Multiple studies have examined individual risk factors associated with …

Background Pain has a significant impact on people's quality of life. The use of prescription
opioids to treat pain is associated with an increased risk of opioid use disorders and …

Background Australian prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) provide information
about a patient's recent medication history for controlled drugs at the point of prescribing and …

Issues Prescription drug monitoring programs are a harm minimisation intervention and
clinical decision support tool that address the public health concern surrounding prescription …

Policy Points: r People are dying at record numbers from overdose in the United States. r
Concerted action has led to a number of successes, including reduced inappropriate opioid …

Background The term “doctor and pharmacy shopping” colloquially describes patients with
high multiple provider episodes (MPEs)-a threshold count of distinct prescribers and/or …

Importance States have implemented multiple policies likely to influence opioid prescribing;
few national general population studies examine those policies' effects on per-capita opioid …

Study objective (s) To evaluate the implementation of 3 electronic health record (EHR)-
based interventions to increase prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) use in the …

Objectives To assess whether implementation of the Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention
(STOP) Act was associated with an increase in the percentage of opioid prescriptions written …