Medical and Pharmacy Boards' Joint Forum to Promote Appropriate Prescribing and Dispensing

Prescription drug abuse and the resulting deaths are something the Board recognizes as an issue that must be given the utmost priority. The Board wants to provide education to its licensees and the public in an effort to prevent prescription drug abuse. To that end, the Board, in collaboration with the Pharmacy Board, held a “Joint Forum to Promote Appropriate Prescribing and Dispensing” for all interested parties on February 21-22, 2013.

The Forum focused on 1) the problem, including inappropriate prescribing, inappropriate security of drugs, etc; 2) the responsible parties, including prescribers, dispensers, patients, and regulators/law enforcement; and 3) the solutions, including education, enforcement, and necessary tools (CURES).

The following materials are from the Forum and include presentation materials that were approved for distribution. To view the PowerPoint presentation click on the presenter’s name. To view the live presentation click on the video icon.

Thursday, February 21, 2013:

• Public Policy Relating to Prescription Drug Abuse – The Roles of the Federal and State Governments
• Michael P. Botticelli, Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Prescription Drug Trafficking/Diversion and Abuse
• Joseph Rannazzisi, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Diversion Control, Drug Enforcement Administration
• A Prosecutor’s Perspective – Abuse and Diversion of Narcotics: The Hidden Motivation for Fraud
• Laura Meyers, Assistant District Attorney, Workers' Compensation Insurance Fraud Unit, San Francisco
  Ruth Morentz, Manager, Special Investigations and Complex Claims Units, Workers' Compensation Division, City & County of San Francisco.
• Additional Handout Material

Friday, February 22, 2013:

• A Doctor’s Perspective
• Cesar A. Aristeiguieta, M.D., Emergency Medicine
• A Pharmacist’s Perspective
• Judi Nurse, Pharm.D., Supervising Inspector, California Board of Pharmacy
• Promoting Appropriate Prescribing: How Education and Cooperation of Physicians and Pharmacists Can Address the Problems of Inappropriate Prescribing and Dispensing
• David Greenberg, M.D.
• Darlene Fujimoto, Pharm.D.
• ER to IR to the ER: from Extended Release to Immediate Release to the Emergency Room, Tracking the Oxycontin to Oxycodone Transition
• Kevin Barnard, Regional Compliance Manager, H.D. Smith
• Your patient is already addicted to narcotics, NOW what?
• No Materials/Panel Discussion Only
• CURES: California’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
• Mike Small, Department of Justice
• Darlene Fujimoto, Pharm.D.
• Gregory Polston, M.D.
• Enforcement and prosecution – what it is, what it could be
• No Materials/Panel Discussion Only
• Expectations vs. Reality: What is the future?