Dawn

7/12/23

File

Opioid REMS CE Providers

Clinical Care Options , LLC

Opioid REMS Patient Centered Pain Management:
An experts guide to Safe, Effective, and Appropriate Care for Patients with Pain

Colorado’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) was created in 2008 to electronically track and monitor prescriptions for controlled substances to help prevent their misuse, allow prescribers to review patients’ prescription histories, and help law enforcement and regulatory boards investigate potentially harmful prescribers.

A March 2021 report by State Auditor Kerri L. Hunter, CPA, identified potential areas to improve the effectiveness of the PDMP:

Require prescribers to query the PDMP before prescribing each opioid (achieved by HB 21-1276).
Enforce the requirements that prescribers and pharmacists register to use and query the PDMP.
Enforce statutory limits on opioid prescriptions and develop enforcement mechanisms for noncompliant prescribers.
Ensure pharmacies comply with rules to submit data on prescriptions in a timely fashion.

While outside the state audit, for years CMS has strongly recommended improving interoperability with electronic health records (EHRs) and the PDMP, which would aid query functionality for physicians and their practices and reduce the administrative burden for compliance.

Colorado Medical Society Article by:
Kate Alfano, CMS Director of Communications and Marketing

Source:
Colorado Health Institute
Opioid overdoses rose by 54 percent in 2020, accounting for nearly two in three overdose deaths in Colorado.

1,477 Coloradans died of drug overdoses in 2020 – the most overdose deaths ever recorded in the state, and a 38 percent increase from 2019.

Fentanyl overdoses became more common, more than doubling between 2019 and 2020 and increasing by 10 times since 2016.

Opioid prescriptions have decreased by 44.4 percent nationwide between 2011 and 2020, including a 6.9 percent decrease from 2019 and 2020.

Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention
Colorado Pain Society

House Bill 21-1276 – sponsored by:
Rep. Chris Kennedy
Rep. Leslie Herod
Sen. Brittany Pettersen
Sen. Kevin Priola

Notes from:
Meet the Press
Sunday, 7/2/23
Chuck Todd, NBC

Biden, state of the union speech:
Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year
someone in the crowd (presumably a Republican) shouts "It's your fault"

The DEA calls fentanyl the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered.

Overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50.

Last year (2022?) overdose deaths total (not just fentanyl) = 110,134.

Anne Millgram says
One pill can kill

Health & Human Services
Opioid Facts and Statistics
9.2 million people mis-used opioids in 2019, per Health & Human Services. Sounds like propaganda to me. If you follow the foot note, they add together the number of people who used heroin plus the people who admit to mis-using prescription opioids.

-- End of Letter --

Navigate:

home / site map / disclaimer

Philip G Rice

resume, FoaF, OPML, RSS Feed , Business Card - scanned image, vCard file. - Casey Kim (562) 382-6465