A prescription drug monitoring program, data sharing, and upholding states’ rights under the United States Constitution

Abuse of physician prescribed opioids contributes to health and economic burdens associated with dependency, overdose, and death. Since the 1900s, the United States (U.S.) Congress has legislated use and misuse of controlled substances. Under the U.S. Constitution, states developed prescription drug...

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Published in:Journal of public health policy 2023-03, Vol.44 (1), p.102-109
Main Authors: Pehrson, Aimee, Solla, Che A., Buehler, Jason, Vance, Matthew
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Analgesics, Opioid - adverse effects
Constitution-US
Constitutions
Controlled Substances
Data
Dependency
Drug abuse
Drug stores
Drugs
Epidemics
Equality and Human Rights
Humans
Information Dissemination
Information sharing
Insurance industry
Interstate commerce
Legislation
Medical Sociology
Monitoring
Narcotics
Opioids
Overdose
Pain
Patients
Pharmaceuticals
Physicians
Police
Prescribing
Prescription Drug Misuse - prevention & control
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Prescription drugs
Public Health
Social Justice
Social Policy
Social Sciences
Sociology
Standard data
Substance abuse
Substance use disorder
United States
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Summary:Abuse of physician prescribed opioids contributes to health and economic burdens associated with dependency, overdose, and death. Since the 1900s, the United States (U.S.) Congress has legislated use and misuse of controlled substances. Under the U.S. Constitution, states developed prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) that determine how the program is managed, what data to track, and what information to share with other states. Lack of a standard data set that allows providers to see prescribing data for designated controlled substances across state lines, limits benefits of state PDMPs. A federal PDMP with a standard minimal set of variables shared across states could enhance patient care. States would exercise their police powers while sharing standard data to decrease adverse consequences of the opioid epidemic.
ISSN:0197-5897
1745-655X
DOI:10.1057/s41271-022-00385-3