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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Holton
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Prescription Drug Monitoring Program - Baltimore City Participation and Utilization
FOR the purpose of requesting the Commissioner of Health and the Police Commissioner to brief the Council on the anticipated impact of the State’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program on prescription drug abuse among the City’s addicted and at-risk populations; on the recognition and treatment of prescription drug abuse as a primary or secondary addiction; and on law enforcement identification and apprehension of those who dispense as well as those who abuse prescription drugs.
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Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem in the United States and has been attributed, in part, to the increased availability of prescription drugs. State prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) address the problem by requiring pharmacies to log each prescription filled. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, when the State’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) goes into effect in October 2011, Maryland will join 34 other states that now have operational PDMPs and 9 states and 1 U.S. territory, Guam, that have enacted legislation to establish a PDMP but are not fully operational.
Maryland’s PDMP, passed by the 2011 General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor earlier this month, establishe...
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