Email communications may be an effective strategy for improving clinician engagement with prescription drug monitoring problems.

States that required physicians to check prescription drug monitoring programs before writing an opioid prescription saw lower rates of “physician shopping,” which is the practice of visiting several ...

Pennsylvania has joined the ranks of states requiring providers to first check an online database of opioid prescriptions before providing patients a script for a controlled substance, according to ...

Medical cannabis remains the only controlled substance in the state for which physicians cannot monitor patient use, confirm dosing, or intervene when patterns of risky behavior emerge ...

FDA commissioner Marty Makary said it would be “magical” for consumers to see prescription drugs on pharmacy shelves instead ...