Nonprofit Wants Mandatory Use of Prescription Databases by Doctors

An organization that has successfully lobbied for state laws to increase the availability of opioid-overdose antidotes is now pushing states to require doctors to use prescription-drug monitoring programs. The nonprofit, called Shatterproof, unveiled a 52-page report on PDMPs this week at the National Prescription Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta. The report contains a 12-point recommendation regarding the drug-monitoring programs, including requiring interstate sharing of data, allowing access to PDMP data by third-party payers and pharmacy-benefit managers, and linking the PDMPs t...