Good news for patient monitoring & diversion prevention professionals:
The Louisiana PMP has added Texas to the states accessible on it's site.
With the current access to Mississippi and Arkansas, this provides access to all adjoining states.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA)
An update from Shatterproof.org, on the recent passage of the CARA.
Read the entire post here.
"This bill is an important first step, addressing the opioid epidemic in several ways. It authorizes $181 million in spending for treatment, prevention and recovery programs, and it allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe buprenorphine to help treat opioid addiction. Most notably, it is clear recognition by both Congress and the administration that addiction must be treated as a health issue, not a crime."
Read the entire post here.
"This bill is an important first step, addressing the opioid epidemic in several ways. It authorizes $181 million in spending for treatment, prevention and recovery programs, and it allows nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe buprenorphine to help treat opioid addiction. Most notably, it is clear recognition by both Congress and the administration that addiction must be treated as a health issue, not a crime."
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Excerpt from: "State Policies Regulating the Practice of Pain
Management: Statutes, Rules, and Guidelines That Shape Pain Care",
American Academy of Pain Management - August, 2016
( http://blog.aapainmanage.org/state-policies-regulating-practice-pain-management/ )
"Over the past 2 decades, pain management in the United States has increasingly come to rely on opioid analgesics as a primary treatment. As a result, there has been a sharp increase in opioid prescribing, with opioid analgesic prescriptions, by weight, quadrupling since 1999. Concomitantly, there has been a dramatic in- crease in overdose deaths involving prescription opioids, with those rates also nearly quadrupling between 1999 and 2008. Although virtually nothing more is known about the circumstances of these overdoses, numerous agencies led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called for states to establish more stringent policies with respect to opioid prescribing. The inherent message is: Decreased prescribing is a principal way to achieve fewer overdose deaths."
See link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1932227516000112
( http://blog.aapainmanage.org/state-policies-regulating-practice-pain-management/ )
"Over the past 2 decades, pain management in the United States has increasingly come to rely on opioid analgesics as a primary treatment. As a result, there has been a sharp increase in opioid prescribing, with opioid analgesic prescriptions, by weight, quadrupling since 1999. Concomitantly, there has been a dramatic in- crease in overdose deaths involving prescription opioids, with those rates also nearly quadrupling between 1999 and 2008. Although virtually nothing more is known about the circumstances of these overdoses, numerous agencies led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called for states to establish more stringent policies with respect to opioid prescribing. The inherent message is: Decreased prescribing is a principal way to achieve fewer overdose deaths."
See link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1932227516000112
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