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STATE ACTIVITIES

Below you will find activities within your State that are helping or not helping, to reduce the deaths and addictions from prescribed narcotics.  If you find that your state could do more, please use the list below to contact your representatives.

If we have not included an activity or effort that is going on in your state, please contact us, and we will post that information. 

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The DEA reports:

As of July 2010, 34 states have operational PDMPs that have the capacity to receive and distribute controlled substance prescription information to authorized users.

Seven states (Alaska, Florida, Kansas, New Jersey, Oregon, South Dakota and Wisconsin) and one U.S. territory (Guam) have enacted legislation to establish a prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP), but are not fully operational.   Washington State's PDMP was operational but has been suspended due to fiscal constraints.

Please note, The Governor of Florida (Rick Scott) is currently against establishing a prescription drug monitoring program, citing budget and patient privacy issues.  Florida has the highest incidents of deaths and addictions in the country, due to "pill mills".

Many of these PDMP's have been in operation for many years.  APOR concludes that PDMP's, while effective in spotting problems with doctor shoppers and criminal activities, falls far short of addressing the real problem, which is a lack of training and regulations for physicians, who prescibe narcotics.  The DEA agrees with this position and has testified over the years, that training and education for physicians is a needed tool to controlling drug abuse.

STATE	Training/Regulations  for Medical prescribers of Narcotics	Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs	Initiatives to address Physician Prescribing of narcotics
Alabama	NO	YES
Alaska	NO	NO
Arizona	NO	YES
Arkansas	NO	YES
California	NO	NO
Colorado	NO	YES
Connecticut	NO	YES
Deleware	NO	YES
Florida	NO	YES
Georgia	NO	YES
Hawaii	NO	YES
Idaho	NO	YES
Kentucky	NO	YES
Louisiana	NO	YES
Iowa	NO	YES
Kansas	NO	NO
Massachusettes	NO	YES
Michigan	NO	YES
Minnesota	NO	YES
Mississippi	NO	YES
Missouri	NO	YES
Montana	NO	YES
Nebraska	NO	YES
Nevada	NO	YES
New Hampshire	NO	YES
New Jersey	NO	NO
New Mexico	NO	YES
New York	NO	YES
North Carolina	NO	YES
North Dakota	NO	YES
Ohio	NO	YES
Oklahoma	NO	YES
Oregon	NO	NO
Pennsylvania	NO	YES
Rhode Island	NO	YES
South Carolina	NO	YES
South Dakota	NO	NO
Tennessee	NO	YES
Texas	NO	YES
Utah	NO	YES
Vermont	NO	YES
Virginia	NO	YES
Washington	NO	NO	YES
West Virginia	NO	YES

 

Below you will find a list of Federal lawmakers and Representatives, who can and should help us.  Please find your representative and send him/her a message to tell them that you would like their support in the effort to create a better system involving narcotics for pain.  Please tell them that regulations and training of physicians, who prescribe narcotics is CRITICAL to addressing this problem.   You can easily copy our "call to action" letter and paste it in the message area of the contact form for your representative. 

LIST OF UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES BY STATE

LIST OF UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVES WITH PHONE NUMBERS