KASPER Changes Gain National Attention in PDMP Debate

By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau ChiefMonths of wrangling by Kentucky lawmakers over expanding the use of the state's 13-year-old prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) has become a key part of a nationwide debate over who should control the nation's 40 operating PDMPs and whether doctors should be required to use them, stakeholders said Friday."Kentucky is ground zero, that's where the attention is today," Evan Jenkins, executive director of the West Virginia Medical Association, said in an interview Friday. "It sits at the intersection of health care needs and law enforc...