The PMP's email address is provided, along with the website addresses for the home page, enrollment, queries, and data upload. Contact information is provided for the Director and the Program Deputy for Operation. Statistics for 2017 cover the state population (8,525,660), DEA registered prescribers (44,271), and DEA registered dispensers (1,822). PMP available reports are listed. Funding sources for the PMP in 2018 were an agreed settlement and a CDC grant. Staff numbers for 2018 covered the following job classifications> operational (3), technical (0), analytical (1), and "other" (0). Key dates in PMP operations are for enabling legislation (2002), becoming operational (September 2003), initial user access (June 2006), on-line access (June 2006), and electronic reporting . Source information is provided for statutes and rules relevant to PMP's policies and procedures. Reporting frequency for monitored drugs is 24 hours or next business day, and this frequency applies even when no monitored drugs were prescribed or monitored. The monitored drugs are controlled substances in schedules II. III. IV, and V. Reporting is also required for the dispensing of naloxone and the collection of marijuana data, The PMP also has the authority to monitor other substances. Miscellaneous capabilities and policies are listed. Enrollment in and the use of the PMP are required for both prescribers and dispensers of monitored drugs. Law enforcement personnel are authorized to access patient monitored drug use only when there is an active investigation of a particular patient. Inactive data are purged after 3 years and de-identified data are purged after 5 years. Training in PMP use is required only for law enforcement requesters. Technological capabilities are reported, along with reports authorized by requester type.
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: Virginia State Profile
NCJ Number
253037
Date Published
January 2019
Length
8 pages
Annotation
Information and data are reported for the Virginia prescription drug monitoring program named the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program (VA PMP), which is administered by the Virginia Department of Health Professions, a professional licensing agency.
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