Drug Control
Drug Control

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-02-03

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781984986115

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Drug Control: DEA Could Improve Its Heroin Signature and Domestic Monitor Programs' Geographic Source Data

Drug Control
Drug Control

Author: Laurie E. Ekstrand

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2002-08

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780756724795

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One of the goals of the National Drug Control Strategy is to protect America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat from countries in South America. This is a report on: the roles of the DoD, the Coast Guard (CG), and the Customs Service (CS) in transit zone drug interdiction; what assets (flight hours and ship days) were used for drug interdiction efforts; what results DoD, the CG, and CS track to demonstrate their effectiveness in transit zone drug interdiction; and whether multiple agencies are reporting the same cocaine seizures, and what procedures and data systems are in place to ensure the accuracy of cocaine seizure data when multiple agencies participate in seizures. Charts and tables. Also includes another GAO 33- page report, "Drug Control: DEA Could Improve its Heroin Signature and Domestic Monitor Programs' Geographic Source Data."

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic
Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-09-28

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0309459575

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Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment
Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment

Author: Committee on Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1995-02-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0309598621

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For nearly three decades, methadone hydrochloride has been the primary means of treating opiate addiction. Today, about 115,000 people receive such treatment, and thousands more have benefited from it in the past. Even though methadone's effectiveness has been well established, its use remains controversial, a fact reflected by the extensive regulation of its manufacturing, labeling, distribution, and use. The Food and Drug Administration regulates the safety and effectiveness of methadone, as it does for all drugs, and the Drug Enforcement Administration regulates it as a controlled substance. However, methadone is also subjected to a unique additional tier of regulation that prescribes how and under what circumstances it may be used to treat opiate addiction. Federal Regulation of Methadone Treatment examines current Department of Health and Human Services standards for narcotic addiction treatment and the regulation of methadone treatment programs pursuant to those standards. The book includes an evaluation of the effect of federal regulations on the provision of methadone treatment services and an exploration of options for modifying the regulations to allow optimal clinical practice. The volume also includes an assessment of alternatives to the existing regulations.