RT Journal
A1 Yokell MA, Green TC, Rich JD
T1 PRescription drug monitoring programs
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD March 7
VO 307
IS 9
SP 912
OP 913
DO 10.1001/jama.307.9.912-b
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.307.9.912-b
AB 
Real-time access to prescription monitoring programs for health professionals is important for a patient-centered approach to combating prescription opioid misuse.2 In addition to screening for potential patterns of abuse with prescription monitoring programs, physicians and pharmacists could use the prescription monitoring program report along with patients' medical histories to identify those at highest risk for opioid overdose, allowing them to provide targeted opioid overdose prevention information and take-home prescription naloxone, an antidote used to reverse acute opioid overdoses.