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CDC Grand Rounds: Prescription Drug Overdoses — a U.S. Epidemic

Publication Date: 

1/13/12

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Tags: doctor shopping, government reports, law enforcement, overdoses, overdoses and deaths, prescribing practices, RX epidemic

Florida Shutting ‘Pill Mill’ Clinics

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The New York Times
Publication Date: 

August 31, 2011

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Tags: deaths, Florida, law enforcement, news articles, overdoses, oxycodone, PDMP impact, pill mills, PMP startup, surveillance

Pharmacies besieged by addicted thieves

Publication: 
New York Times
Publication Date: 

February 6, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/us/07pharmacies.html
Tags: addiction, law enforcement, narcotics, news articles, Oxycontin, pharmacy robberies, pharmacy thefts

Drivers on prescription drugs are hard to convict

Publication: 
New York Times
Publication Date: 

July 24, 2010

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Tags: accidents, drug impaired driving, law enforcement, news articles

Prescription for peril: how insurance fraud finances theft and abuse of addictive prescription drugs

Publication Date: 

2007

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Tags: case investigation, celebrities, demographic characteristics, diversion, doctor shopping, epidemiology, fraud, Internet, law enforcement, methadone, Oxycontin, pain management, PDMP impact, pill mills, pill pushers, Vicodin, white paper, Xanax

Suspended state program may have flagged rogue physician

Publication Date: 

6/3/2010

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Tags: case investigation, diversion, doctor shopping, law enforcement, news articles, PMP funding, social costs, Washington

Prescription for disaster: The growing problem of prescription drug abuse in Maryland

Publication Date: 

2005

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Tags: chilling effect, diversion, doctor shopping, fraud, government reports, law enforcement, Maryland, PDMP impact, PMP operations, state comparisons, survey data, treatment admissions data

National prescription drug threat assessment

Publication Date: 

2009

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Tags: diversion, epidemiology, government reports, law enforcement, opioid abuse, PDMP impact, social costs, survey data

Prescription Drug Facts and Figures

Publication Date: 

2009

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Tags: arrest data, DAWN data, epidemiology, government reports, law enforcement, survey data, treatment admissions data

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