Can prescription drug monitoring programs help limit opioid abuse?

MeSH terms

• Analgesics, Opioid / poisoning
• Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use
• Databases, Factual
• Drug Monitoring*
• Drug Overdose / prevention & control
• Federal Government
• Humans
• Legislation, Drug
• Opioid-Related Disorders / mortality
• Opioid-Related Disorders / prevention & control*
• Pain / drug therapy
• Physician's Role
• Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*
• Prescription Drugs*
• State Government
• United States / epidemiology