Almost every state in the country has implemented a prescription monitoring program (PMP) to assist physicians with tracking prescriptions for controlled substances — but passing PMP legislation alone ...

The Commonwealth of Virginia and Purdue Pharma, a privately held pharmaceutical company, have entered a public-private partnership to expand use of the state prescription monitoring program. With ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — A new law in Texas delays the requirement for physicians and pharmacists to check the prescription drug monitoring program to March 2020. Pharmacies have been reporting controlled ...

The Prescription Monitoring Program of Virginia was awarded a $3.1 million grant from Purdue Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company. The funding will help integrate PMP data into provider and pharmacist ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The researchers also found that “many barriers exist” to prescription monitoring program (PMP) data use.

Back in 2014, when he was the medical director of the opioid treatment program at the Spokane Regional Health District, Dr. Matt Layton saw firsthand just how useful Washington state's prescription ...

BOSTON - Daily searches of the state's prescription monitoring program have more than quadrupled after an overhaul of the program this year and the introduction of a requirement that doctors must ...

Doctor-shoppers and others who obtain prescription drugs by fraud should fear the PMP. Those who get multiple prescriptions for narcotics from different doctors or forge prescriptions may fly under ...