ers are going directly to doctors for their drugs,” he said. “Health care providers need to screen for abuse risk and pre- scribe judiciously by checking past re- cords in state prescription drug moni- toring programs. It’s time we stop the source and treat the troubled.” Physicians can check patients’ con-
trolled substance prescription history through the Texas Department of Public Safety’s (DPS’s) secure online Prescrip- tion Access in Texas (PAT) database,
www.texaspatx.com/Login.aspx. The program — designed to reduce patients’ prescription drug abuse — gives phy- sicians and police online access to the controlled substances prescribed to a specific patient in the past year. CDC says most people who abuse pre-
scription drugs get them from a friend or relative. Many prevention efforts, such as collecting unused medications through drug take-back events, focus on abusers who do not hold a prescription for their drug of choice, CDC says. CDC researchers analyzed data from 2008 to 2011 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administra- tion’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Researchers found those at the highest risk for overdose get their opi- oids from a doctor’s prescription about 27 percent of the time. CDC researchers say frequent abusers obtain drugs from friends or relatives for free about 26 percent of the time, buy the drugs from friends or relatives about 23 percent of the time, and buy the pre- scriptions from a drug dealer about 15 percent of the time. The Texas Medical Association works to educate Texas physicians about the latest evidence-based literature on re- sponsible opioid analgesia manage- ment with the goal of reducing the risk to patients and enhancing public safety regarding opioid use, misuse, abuse, di- version, and nontherapeutic prescribing. For more information about prescrip- tion drug overdoses in the United States, visit
www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreational safety/overdose.
Kara Nuzback is a reporter for Texas Medicine. You can reach her by telephone at (800) 880-1300, ext. 1393, or (512) 370-1393; by fax at (512) 370-1629; or by email at
kara.nuzback@
texmed.org.
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