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Senate Delays Action on PDMP

05/02/2011
The Florida Senate on Friday delayed final action on its version of legislation aimed at cracking down on pill mills and implementing the state's prescription drug monitoring program PDMP. But Senate leaders announced plans to scrap the House version of the crackdown -- which includes a ban on

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Scott Backs PDMP in Congressional Testimony

04/19/2011
Florida Gov. Rick Scott who initially opposed the states prescription drug monitoring program PDMP and abolished the agency assigned to create it officially reversed positions in testimony before Congress last week. Scott told the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing and Trade

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Fight over PDMP Bills Going Down to the Wire

05/02/2013
-Sebring would allow future state funding of Florida's PDMP known as the Electronic- Florida Online Reporting on Controlled Substances Evaluation program and would allow the use of contributions from drug manufacturers to support the database beginning July 1. Grimsley's bill also would impose the first

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Physician-Dispensing Ban Clears Florida House

04/22/2011
pain-management clinics for resale in other states. The bill also directs the Florida Department of Health to create a prescription drug monitoring program PDMP for drugs included in Schedules II III and IV of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's list of controlled substances. It also

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Lawmakers Appear to be Nearing a Deal on 'Pill Mill' Crackdown

04/14/2011
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau Chief Leaders of the Florida House and Senate appear to be nearing a compromise with Gov. Rick Scott over a plan that would protect the state's fledgling prescription drug monitoring program PDMP and ban doctors from dispensing certain controlled substances

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Fasano Credits 'Pill Mill' Law for Decrease in Drug Deaths

04/03/2013
six months of 2012 compared to the last six months of 2011. FDLE said 200 less people with a link to prescription drugs died between the two periods. Gov. Rick Scott initially opposed creation of the PDMP but switched his position following pressure from officials outside of Florida including

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Committee Bill Would End Physician Dispensing

03/15/2011
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau Chief A Florida House panel reviewing Gov. Rick Scott's call to abolish the state's new Prescription Drug Monitoring Program PDMP agreed to do that and much more last week. At the urging of panel Chairman Robert C. "Rob" Schenck R-Spring Hill the Health and

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Lawmaker Says PDMP at Risk Due to House Inaction

05/03/2013
extra PDMP funding. Rep. Mike Fasano R-New Port Richey said in a letter to House Speaker Will Weatherford on Thursday that the PDMP launched in September 2011 as the Electronic- Florida Online Reporting of Controlled Substances Evaluation program E-FORCSE has exhausted its primary start-up grants

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New PDMP in for Legislative and Regulatory Changes

09/27/2011
legislation also banned physicians from dispensing drugs on Schedules II and III of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration DEA list of controlled substances. Fasano who spearheaded a move in the Senate last session to revive a PDMP first authorized in 2009 has sent a letter to the Florida Medical

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Battle Lines Being Drawn in Fight Over PDMP

03/01/2011
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has picked up support from the state's new speaker of the House in his bid to shut down the two-year-old Prescription Drug Monitoring Program PDMP. But while Scott has the backing of House Speaker Dean Cannon R-Winter Park he faces strong opposition from Florida Senate

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