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Posted 9/1/2020 (updated 3/29/2024)
As part of its ongoing effort to utilize the latest technology to make it easier for stakeholders to find information about prescription drug monitoring program
(PDMP) operations and laws, the PDMP Training and Technical Assistance Center (TTAC) recently announced several new features on the TTAC website.
Posted 2/4/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
A Systems Perspective of the Opioid Epidemic Webinar Presentation and Materials
Posted 5/13/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
In recent years, much attention in the U.S. has been focused on the opioid crisis, which was responsible for nearly 46,000 overdose deaths in 2018. This crisis initially began to accelerate in the early 2000s with a steady rise in the abuse of prescription pain medications, and beginning around 2010, opioid deaths increasingly involved heroin. As of 2013, the ready availability of potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl ushered in a new era of rapidly increasing opioid overdose deaths, with the total number of opioid deaths doubling between 2013 and 2018. Deaths involving synthetic opioids have continued to rise very rapidly, even as involvement of commonly prescribed prescription opioids and heroin has leveled off recently.
Posted 9/28/2022 (updated 10/26/2023)
During the August 2022 RCORP Data Coordinator Calls, many of those who attended expressed interest in learning more about how to use GoogleForms to collect data from their consortium members and partners.