Comprehensive mandates for prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) require state-licensed prescribers and dispensers both to register with and to use the programs in most clinical circumstances.

State prescription drug monitoring programs are promising tools to rein in the epidemic of prescription opioid overdose. We used data from a national survey to assess the effects of these programs on ...

A group of Montana healthcare workers says the state-mandated monitoring program designed to help them recover from addiction instead subjects them to “punitive, expensive, and clinically unwarranted” ...