Impact of Florida's prescription drug monitoring program and pill mill law on high-risk patients: A comparative interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We quantified the effects of Florida's prescription drug monitoring program and pill mill law on high-risk patients.

Methods

We used QuintilesIMS LRx Lifelink data to identify patients receiving prescription opioids in Florida (intervention state, N: 1.13 million) and Georgia (control state, N: 0.54 million). The preintervention, intervention, and postintervention periods were July 2010 to June 2011, July 2011 to September 2011, and October 2011 to September 2012. We identified 3 types of high-risk patients: (1) concomitant users: patients with concomitant use of benzodiazepines and opioids; (2) chronic users: long-term, high-dose, opioid users; and (3) opioid shoppers: patients receiving opioids from multiple sources. We compared changes in opioid prescriptions betw

SUBMITTER: Chang HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6664298 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature