Queries to Florida PDMP Jumped 61% in 2012-2013

Queries to Florida's two-year-old prescription drug-monitoring program jumped by 61% in the past year and registration by the state's pharmacists and health care providers increased by 28%, the Florida Department of Health reported this week.Dr. John Armstrong, Florida's surgeon general, said in the 2012-2103 annual report on the Electronic-Florida Online Reporting of Controlled Substance Evaluation Program issued this week that the database has grown to include 87 million prescriptions for controlled substances. The database was checked 3.7 million times during the most recent 12-...