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Impact of prescription drug monitoring programs and pill mill laws on high-risk opioid prescribers: A comparative interrupted time series analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Drug & Alcohol Dependence, June 2016
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Title
Impact of prescription drug monitoring programs and pill mill laws on high-risk opioid prescribers: A comparative interrupted time series analysis
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Drug & Alcohol Dependence, June 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.04.033
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Hsien-Yen Chang, Tatyana Lyapustina, Lainie Rutkow, Matthew Daubresse, Matt Richey, Mark Faul, Elizabeth A. Stuart, G. Caleb Alexander

Abstract

Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) and pill mill laws were implemented to reduce opioid-related injuries/deaths. We evaluated their effects on high-risk prescribers in Florida. We used IMS Health's LRx Lifelink database between July 2010 and September 2012 to identify opioid-prescribing prescribers in Florida (intervention state, N: 38,465) and Georgia (control state, N: 18,566). The pre-intervention, intervention, and post-intervention periods were: July 2010-June 2011, July 2011-September 2011, and October 2011-September 2012. High-risk prescribers were those in the top 5th percentile of opioid volume during four consecutive calendar quarters. We applied comparative interrupted time series models to evaluate policy effects on clinical practices and monthly prescribing measures for low-risk/high-risk prescribers. We identified 1526 (4.0%) high-risk prescribers in Florida, accounting for 67% of total opioid volume and 40% of total opioid prescriptions. Relative to their lower-risk counterparts, they wrote sixteen times more monthly opioid prescriptions (79 vs. 5, p<0.01), and had more prescription-filling patients receiving opioids (47% vs. 19%, p<0.01). Following policy implementation, Florida's high-risk providers experienced large relative reductions in opioid patients and opioid prescriptions (-536 patients/month, 95% confidence intervals [CI] -829 to -243; -847 prescriptions/month, CI -1498 to -197), morphine equivalent dose (-0.88mg/month, CI -1.13 to -0.62), and total opioid volume (-3.88kg/month, CI -5.14 to -2.62). Low-risk providers did not experience statistically significantly relative reductions, nor did policy implementation affect the status of being high- vs. low- risk prescribers. High-risk prescribers are disproportionately responsive to state policies. However, opioids-prescribing remains highly concentrated among high-risk providers.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 16%
Student > Master 20 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 10%
Other 12 9%
Other 23 16%
Unknown 30 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 30 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 12%
Social Sciences 15 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 9 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 4%
Other 19 14%
Unknown 45 32%
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#181,146
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#98
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Outputs of similar age from Drug & Alcohol Dependence
#2
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