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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2020

A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy.

A Jay Holmgren, Alyssa Botelho, Allan M Brandt

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Article in American journal of public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 authors.

A Jay HolmgrenA. Jay Holmgren is with the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA. Alyssa Botelho is with the Medical Scientist Training Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Allan M. Brandt is with the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Alyssa BotelhoA. Jay Holmgren is with the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA. Alyssa Botelho is with the Medical Scientist Training Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Allan M. Brandt is with the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge.
Allan M BrandtA. Jay Holmgren is with the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA. Alyssa Botelho is with the Medical Scientist Training Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Allan M. Brandt is with the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge.

Funding

Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM007753 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALENSKY, LOREN DAVID · 1985 to 2021
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NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy to address the US opioid crisis. Despite mixed scientific evidence on their effectiveness at improving health and reducing overdose deaths, 49 states and Washington, DC have adopted PDMPs, and they have received strong bipartisan legislative support. This article explores the history of PDMPs, tracking their evolution from paper-based administrative databases in the early 1900s to modern-day electronic systems that intervene at the point of care. We focus on two questions: how did PDMPs become so widely adopted in the United States, and how did they gain popularity as an intervention in the contemporary opioid crisis? Through this historical approach, we evaluate what PDMPs reflect about national drug policy and broader cultural understandings of substance use disorder in the United States today. (

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Prescription Drug MisusePublic HealthAnalgesics, OpioidDrug OverdoseHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansPolicyPrescription Drug Monitoring ProgramsUnited StatesAnalgesics, Opioid

Identifiers

PMID32552023
PMCPMC7349461

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