Making Use of Your State’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) is an online database that houses prescribing and dispensing data for patients per state. The PDMP helps identify when a patient obtains multiple prescriptions from different practitioners—which may indicate that the patient is misusing or is addicted to prescription drugs.4
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Find Your State’s PDMP
US State Dispensing Rates per 100 persons, 20209
> 60 prescriptions
50-59.9 prescriptions
40-49.9 prescriptions
< 40 prescriptions
*No data is available for US territories.
US State Dispensing Rates per 100 persons, 20209
> 60 prescriptions
50-59.9 prescriptions
40-49.9 prescriptions
< 40 prescriptions
*No data is available for US territories.