Despite the significant cost of prescription (Rx) drug abuse and calls from policy makers for effective interventions … prescription drug monitoring (PDMP) programs which is a key policy targeting the non-medical use of Rx drugs. Based on objective … utilization rates by actually requiring providers to query the PDMP prior to prescribing a controlled drug, are significantly …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … all states to collect, monitor, and analyze prescription opioid data with the goal of preventing misuse and the diversion … a decrease in crime-related arrests as well as drug-related arrests. Overall, these results provide additional evidence …

This paper seeks to understand the treatment effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) on opioid … prescription rates. Using county-level panel data on all opioid prescriptions in the U.S. between 2006 and 2015, we investigate …-series trends in prescription rates, and other state-level opioid interventions such as Naloxone Access and Good Samaritan laws …

prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) that record patients into a state-wide registry when a prescription opioid is …In response to growing abuse of prescription opioid painkillers, 50 U.S. states have implemented electronic … shipments, with results from Medicaid prescription data pointing to larger decreases within high dosage pills. PDMPs have …

A growing literature has examined how mandatory access prescription drug monitoring programs (MA PDMPs), laws that … require providers to consider a patient's prescription history before prescribing controlled substances, affect opioid … on non-opioid drug prescribing, but these effects differ substantially across drug types …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … all states to collect, monitor, and analyze prescription opioid data with the goal of preventing misuse and the diversion … a decrease in crime-related arrests as well as drug-related arrests. Overall, these results provide additional evidence …