How Lock-and-Suspend Shuts Down Illegal Online Pharmacies and Protects Patients
At any given time, between 30,000 and 40,000 illegal online pharmacies hawk substandard prescription drugs to unsuspecting patients. Law enforcement and government agencies have a steep hill to climb in stopping them, but “lock-and-suspend” shows promise. Our newest Rogue Rx Activity Report explores how locking and suspending the domain names of these sites directly impacts […]
Read More ›New Bill for Online Platform Accountability Looks Beyond Section 230
As has been reported extensively over the past year, social media companies have come under scrutiny both at the national and international levels for not doing enough to prevent their platforms from being used to facilitate illegal drug sales. Despite reports that many popular platforms have stepped up efforts to police content – both TikTok […]
Read More ›Get the Best of NABP In Your Pocket with Improved Mobile App
Some things just get better with time. Wine and cheese. Shoes after they’ve been broken in. The same holds true for the latest version of our mobile app. We just launched an expanded version with more free features and a simpler top-level navigation. Check out a few highlights below, then head to the App Store […]
Read More ›Congress Prepares for the Next Phase of the Pandemic and Transformations in the Telehealth Industry
With the release of the White House’s next phase National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan and looming deadlines to fund the federal government, including replenishing aid for pandemic relief, it has been an eventful month on Capitol Hill for the health care industry. In the most recent iteration of President Joseph R. Biden’s pandemic preparedness plan, the White House […]
Read More ›DEA Seeks Public Input as it Explores Regulating Telepharmacy
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic prompted state and federal government to shift guidance and relax policies on a wide range of telehealth services, which resulted in a boom in remote offerings for patients. However, long before this rapid transformation in telehealth, telepharmacy, an increasingly popular form of remote pharmacy care, has operated under a patchwork of state laws with […]
Read More ›How e-Prescribing Trends Impacted the Opioid Epidemic
Before DEA published an interim final rule in 2010, which gave practitioners the option to write prescriptions for controlled substances (CS) electronically, e-prescribing for CS was prohibited in many states. Now, 11 years later, the regulatory and technological landscape has shifted significantly. As part of the larger effort to curb the opioid crisis, many states […]
Read More ›A Decade Later, NABP PMP InterConnect is Still a Vital Tool for Prescribers
This year, we celebrate 10 years of NABP PMP InterConnect and are proud that the system now hosts 1 million users across 52 states and jurisdictions. It processes more than 1 billion patient encounters annually, saving providers 2 to 5 minutes per patient encounter. The service links state prescription monitoring programs (PMPs), allowing physicians, pharmacists, and other authorized users to check patients prescription drug […]
Read More ›How Washington’s Response to Cyberattacks Impacts the Health Care Sector
Cyberattacks targeting the nation’s critical infrastructure have become increasingly prevalent over the last few years, but, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, attacks across all sectors have rapidly accelerated. Greater emphasis on remote work and business operations have created the “perfect storm” for cybercriminals to exploit security flaws within many organizations, especially the health […]
Read More ›Cyberattackers Continue to Threaten the COVID-19 Supply Chains
In early December 2020, as United States and European governments readied their distribution plans in anticipation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine authorization, law enforcement agencies prepared for an onslaught of various types of criminal activity and organized crime linked to COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Similar to the predatory criminal behavior seen earlier in the pandemic, […]
Read More ›How Online Drug Dealers Exploit Social Media Algorithms
This month marks one year since Charlie Ternan, a 22-year-old, soon-to-be college graduate, was found unresponsive in his room after taking what he thought to be Percocet® to alleviate his back pain. The pill was unfortunately not a legitimate pain medication but was instead a fentapill, a counterfeit drug containing the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Charlie purchased […]
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