#PDMP

JAMA Health Forum graphic on prescription drug monitoring. Population: 4385 men, 3487 women. Intervention: 7872 clinicians randomized into legal mandate, clinical benefit, and control groups. Findings show increased PDMP engagement with reminder emails.

Clinician-targeted #PDMP email reminders support sustained monitoring activity, yet showed no impact on guideline-discordant #opioid prescribing. ja.ma/4p3zdRY

Ken Paxton Can Access Your Prescription Records Ken Paxton and other Republican officials can access your prescription records without a warrant and use it to target you and your healthcare as he's done with gender affirming care.

Hey fellow healthcare providers, especially #Pediatricians

Did you know that Texas is using the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program #PDMP to persecute providers without a warrant?

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Wirklich, widersprecht der #eAkte

“In 9 states, the #PDMP entry even contains the diagnosis code (ICD-10) associated with the prescription. That means a police officer scrutinizing the file could directly see why a person was prescribed a drug.”

#Linnemann hat 🍆

#LGBTQ

Changes in opioid agonist treatment initiation among people prescribed opioids for pain following vo... Introduction Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) are increasingly used to identify people prescribed high-dose opioids. However, little is known about whether PDMPs impact opioid agonist tr.....

*New research* from our group - did more people start #opioid agonist #treatment following voluntary or mandatory prescription drug monitoring program #PDMP implementation? We didn't find any change probably for a whole range of reasons, including potentially the lack of access to these treatments.