10/08/2012
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau chief
Concerns that Florida's 13-month-old prescription drug monitoring program PDMP might go broke by next March have prompted a call for the Florida Legislature to lift bans on state funding and gifts for the PDMP from the nation's drug makers.
Sharon
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03/02/2011
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau Chief
The president of the Florida Society of Pain Management Providers this week called on Congress to create a national Prescription Drug Management Program PDMP and challenged research by a Florida House of Representatives committee working on legislation
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10/17/2012
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau Chief
Four Florida counties appear to be the first in the nation to use ordinances to require doctors to check Florida's 13-month-old Prescription Drug Monitoring Program PDMP before prescribing controlled substances despite opposition from the Florida
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04/02/2014
their use of PDMP information and sign confidentiality agreements with the Florida Department of Health and prohibits state prosecutors from sharing PDMP data with defense attorneys without a discovery demand directly related to a criminal case.
The bill bans prosecutors from releasing "unrelated
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02/26/2013
Osceola Pinellas and Sarasota were the first counties in the nation to pass ordinances requiring doctors to check the Florida PDMP. The Florida Medical Association last fall asked counties to modify their ordinances to remove the requirement that doctors check the database because that mandate wasn't
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08/28/2013
By Michael Whiteley Eastern Bureau Chief
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida on Tuesday called for state regulators to block the disclosure of prescription drug-monitoring program data as part of criminal discovery proceedings and to limit the types of PDMP queries that can be submitted
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04/17/2013
also lifts a prohibition against drug companies giving money to the Florida PDMP Foundation which is authorized by state law to raise money to support operation of the database by the Florida Department of Health.
A Florida law passed in 2011 intended to shut down Florida's "pill mills" required the
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01/15/2014
committee SPB 7016 was triggered by the release of 3300 patient records from the Florida PDMP to six defense attorneys in a pending criminal drug-trafficking case in Volusia County.
The records detailed the history of controlled substance prescriptions for residents who weren't targets of the
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04/12/2011
Florida Surgeon General H. Frank Farmer Jr. has signed a final order allowing the state Health Department to go forward with plans to create a controversial prescription drug monitoring program PDMP.
In an order signed Friday Farmer cited a March 8 ruling by state Administrative Law Judge
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12/04/2013
required pharmacists to report the dispensing of all drugs on Schedules II III and IV of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's controlled substances list.
HB 7095 also banned Florida doctors from dispensing Schedule II and III drugs as of July 1 2011.
Since its launch the PDMP has been beset by
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