Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) may be doing more harm than good for patients with substance use disorder (SUD), according to a recent study.
“PDMPs were originally designed for law enforcement and have only recently been used in healthcare,” said researcher Elizabeth Chiarello, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Louis University, to Pain Medicine News. “The use of PDMPs in pharmacies has reoriented the profession