FL's Next Gen of Prescription Drug Related Surveillance: Data into Insights that Enhance PDMP Best Practices

Prescription drug-related fatal overdoses have declined in Florida but other indicators of abuse and diversion remain areas of concern. The BJA-funded Florida drug-Related Outcomes Surveillance and Tracking (FROST) system has provided the state with improved surveillance capacity and the ability to impact at-risk populations such as veterans, recipients/prescribers of dangerous Rx drug combinations, and women of reproductive age. This project has three major objectives: 1) maintain, utilize, and expand FROST and increase the analysis of de-identified prescription data to address at-risk populations, 2) increase registration and utilization of the state PDMP by analyzing registration and utilization patterns by specialty, conducting analysis of a new PDMP user survey of nearly 6,000 providers, and reducing the PDMP staff time required to generate proactive reports sent to prescribers, and 3) Expand our data-driven, multidisciplinary team to include county-level law enforcement in areas highly-impacted by drug abuse and add new clinical expertise.