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Information & Resource Center ---- PMP Resources for Clinicians

The Information and Resource Center at the Maine Office of Substance Abuse provides Maine citizens with information on drug abuse prevention and treatment. Our library catalog is on the web, and you can contact us at 1-800-499-0027 or osa.ircosa@maine.gov to borrow any of the books, DVDs and videos listed below.

VIDEOS & DVDs

These may be borrowed from the Information and Resource Center.

  • Preventing Drug Diversion: A Program for Physicians
    (2003, 19 min., Fanlight Productions)
  • Preventing Drug Diversion: A Program for Pharmacists
    (2003, 18 min., Fanlight Productions)

These two training films will help physicians, pharmacists and others learn to prevent drug diversion and to comply with current legal requirements without unduly increasing costs or, more importantly, compromising patient care. Additional films on prescription drug addiction are also available.

  • Drug Diversion in Health Care: What Every Nurse Should Know (2005, 70 min., Maine State Board of Nursing) This DVD for nurses and nursing students covers the serious issue of drug diversion and provides information on how to prevent, identify and report it.

Prescription Drugs: Killing More Than Pain (Broadcast 2/10/2005, 60 min., Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training Program) This hour-long broadcast looks at the problem of prescription drug abuse from all sides, including law enforcement, recovering addicts, treatment providers, doctors, and drugmakers.

BOOKS & REPORTS

Colvin, Rod (2002) Prescription Drug Addiction: the Hidden Epidemic. Omaha, NE: Addicus Books.

Legal Drugs, Illegal Purposes: The Escalating Abuse of Prescription Medications (pdf)

In August, 2003, a U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator Susan Collins, convened in Bangor to address the growing problem of diverted prescription medication, a problem that has resulted in a sharp rise in overdose deaths in this state and nationally.   Read the testimony that was presented at this hearing.

Kramen, Pilar, (2004) Prescription Drug Diversion (Trends Alert-Critical Information for State Decision Makers) . Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments http://www.csg.org/pubs/Documents/TA0404DrugDiversion.pdf

Prescription Drugs: State Monitoring Programs Provide Useful Tool to Reduce Diversion. GAO-02-634 http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02634.pdf

Prescription for Danger: A Report on the Troubling Trend of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse Among the Nation's Teens. (2008) http://www.mediacampaign.org/newsroom/press08/rx_rpt_2008.pdf

Recommendations for Prescription Monitoring Programs (2002) http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/03/briefing/3978B1_12_FDA-Tab11.pdf

Under the Counter: the Diversion and Abuse of Controlled Prescription Drugs in the U.S. (2005) http://www.casacolumbia.org/absolutenm/articlefiles/380-Under%20the%20Counter%20-%20Diversion.pdf

ARTICLES

Check with your local librarian for availability.

Becker, WC, Sullivan, LE et. al. Non-medical use, abuse and dependence on prescription opioids among U.S. adults: psychiatric, medical and substance abuse correlates. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008; 94 (1-3): 38-47.

Benak, LD, Eccher, D. et. al. Prescription drug monitoring through the Maine Office of Substance Abuse. J Forensic Nurs. 2007 Fall-Win.; 3(3-4): 141-5.

Bushwood DB, Maximizing the value of electronic prescription monitoring programs. J Law Med Ethics. 2003 Spring; 31(1): 41-54. http://www.painandthelaw.org/aslme_content/31-1/brushwood.pdf

Compton, WM, Volkow, ND, Abuse of prescription drugs and the risk of addiction. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2006 Jun; 83 sup.1: s4-7.

Fishman, SM, Papazian JS, et. al. Regulating opioid prescribing through prescription monitoring programs: balancing drug diversion and treatment of pain. Pain Medicine. 2004 Sep.; 5(3): 309-324.

Gilson AM , A reassessment of trends in the medical use and abuse of opioid analgesics and implications for diversion control 1997-2002. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2004 Aug; 28 (2): 176-88.

Gilson AM, Joranson DE, Controlled substances and pain management: changes in knowledge and attitudes of state medical regulators. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2001 Mar; 21(3): 227-37.

Hall, AJ, Logan, JE, et al. Patterns of Abuse Among Unintentional Pharmaceutical Overdose Fatalities. JAMA. 2008; 300 (22): 2613-2620.

Hertz, JA, Knight, JR, Prescription drug misuse: a growing national problem. Adolesc Med Clin. 2006 Oct; 17(3): 751-69.

Ives, TJ, Chelminski, PR et. al. Predictors of opioid misuse in patients with chronic pain: a prospective cohort study. BMC Health Services Research. 2006 April 4; 6:46 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1513222&blobtype=pdf

Katz, N, Houle, B. et. al. Update on prescription monitoring in clinical practice: a survey study of prescription monitoring program administrators. Pain Medicine. 2008 Jul-Aug; 9(5): 587-594.

Kuehn, BM, Scientists probe ways to curb opioid abuse without hindering pain treatment. JAMA. 2007 May 9; 297(18): 1965-67.

Kroutil, LA, Van Brunt, DL et. al. Nonmedical use of prescription stimulants in the United States. Drug Alcohol Depend. Sept. 15, 2006; 84(2): 135-43.

McCabe, SE, Cranford, JA, et. al. Motives, diversion and routes of administration associated with nonmedical use of prescription opioids. Addict Behav. 2007 Mar; 32(3): 562-75.

McCabe, SE, Teter, CJ, & Boyd, CJ, Medical use, illicit use and diversion of abusable prescription drugs. J Am Coll Health 2006 Mar-Apr; 54(5): 269-78.

Manchikanti, L. National drug control policy and prescription drug abuse: facts and fallacies. Pain Physician 2007 May; 10(3): 399-424.

Passik SD, Kirsh KL Assessing aberrant drug-taking behaviors in the patient with chronic pain. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2004 Aug; 8(4): 289-94.

Riggs, P. Non-medical use and abuse of commonly prescribed medicines. Curr Med Res Opin. 2008 Mar; 24(3): 869-77.

Seeger VB, Vivian JC, Is it legitimate? strategies for assessing questionable prescriptions. J Am Pharm Assoc ( Wash ). 2002 Sep-Oct; 42(5 Suppl 1): S58-9.

Wilsey B, Fishman S, & Rose JS, Pain management in the ED. Am J Emerg Med. 2004 Jan; 22(1): 51-7.

Woolf CJ, Hashmi M., Use and abuse of opioid analgesics: potential methods to prevent and deter non-medical consumption of prescription opioids. Curr Opin Investig Drugs. 2004 Jan; 5(1): 61-6.