The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) supports the passage of Assembly Bill 3982 mandating that practitioners issue prescriptions for controlled substances electronically using an electronic health records system. E-prescribing for controlled substances would reduce some prescription errors and help prevent more than 2 million adverse drug events per year, 130,000 of which are life threatening. AMCP members seek to reduce the public health crises associated with medication prescribing errors, abuse and diversion of opioids, all of which AB 3982 addresses.
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) commends the Senate for its overwhelming 92-to-2 passage of S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA).
AMCP CEO Blog: It was only ten years ago when biosimilars were so new that the New York Times described them as “so-called.” As late as five years ago newspapers put quotation marks around the term, as in “biosimilars.”
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a final rule titled “Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders” scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on July 8, 2016. AMCP had submitted comments on the draft rule urging for provisions related to team-based care, education on diversion mitigation strategies, and the expansion of practitioner eligibility to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid abuse disorders.