Both Hildebran's analysis of drug abuse programs in How Clinicians Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: A Qualitative Inquiry and the Waisman Method Medical Group's Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Essential to Combating Opiate Addiction both give analysis of how Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP's) are used today.
While Hildebran's paper was merely a collective study and Waisman's paper was an advocation for the stopping of prescription drug abuse, both outlined that there has been significant abuse of drugs among patients, specifically teenagers and young adults. However, both of these deductions were made through somewhat broad recordings, and in Hildebran's case, maybe even too broad. In the aftermath of the analyses of Hildebran's group and the Waisman Group, pain medicines such as Vicodin and Morphine remain the most abused. Hildebran's analysis showed that, because of the constant abusing of pain medications, clinicians used their PDMP most often for patients prescribed those medications. The Waisman project described how the CDC promotes better Drug Monitoring Programs to work towards a stop in prescription drug abuse.
Altogether, both studies emphasize that, while PDMP's are out there and are in use, there is still a major problem with prescription drug abuse in today's society
Hildebran, C., Cohen, D. J., Irvine, J. M., Foley, C., O'Kane, N., Beran, T. and Deyo, R. A. (2014), How Clinicians Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: A Qualitative Inquiry. Pain Medicine, 15: 1179–1186. doi: 10.1111/pme.12469. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
Waisman, Claire, and Dr. Michael H. Lowenstein. "Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Essential to Combating Opiate Addiction." PR Newswire. Waisman Method Medical Group, 20 Oct. 2015. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
by: Rory Loe
While Hildebran's paper was merely a collective study and Waisman's paper was an advocation for the stopping of prescription drug abuse, both outlined that there has been significant abuse of drugs among patients, specifically teenagers and young adults. However, both of these deductions were made through somewhat broad recordings, and in Hildebran's case, maybe even too broad. In the aftermath of the analyses of Hildebran's group and the Waisman Group, pain medicines such as Vicodin and Morphine remain the most abused. Hildebran's analysis showed that, because of the constant abusing of pain medications, clinicians used their PDMP most often for patients prescribed those medications. The Waisman project described how the CDC promotes better Drug Monitoring Programs to work towards a stop in prescription drug abuse.
Altogether, both studies emphasize that, while PDMP's are out there and are in use, there is still a major problem with prescription drug abuse in today's society
Hildebran, C., Cohen, D. J., Irvine, J. M., Foley, C., O'Kane, N., Beran, T. and Deyo, R. A. (2014), How Clinicians Use Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: A Qualitative Inquiry. Pain Medicine, 15: 1179–1186. doi: 10.1111/pme.12469. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
Waisman, Claire, and Dr. Michael H. Lowenstein. "Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Essential to Combating Opiate Addiction." PR Newswire. Waisman Method Medical Group, 20 Oct. 2015. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
by: Rory Loe