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 Medicolegal Death Investigation Considerations for Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Event Dates
              November 4, 2021, 1:00 pm
 – 2:00 pmEastern
Event Duration
              1 hour
Location
              Online

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Medical examiners and coroners use a variety of data sources to complete a medicolegal death investigation (MDI) and make determinations on a cause and manner of death. One of those data sources is state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs). PDMPs are state-operated databases and medicolegal surveillance systems that document the dispensing of certain prescription medications to individual patients. Typically, PDMPs aggregate transactional records of controlled substance prescriptions when dispensed in outpatient pharmacy settings. This means that a patient receives the medication for in-home use rather than being administered the medication directly by a healthcare provider within a medical facility, such as a hospital or clinic. This information can provide critical details on a patient’s history of treatment for substance use disorder, predicted opioid tolerance, prescribers/dispensers of last contact, unusual drug utilization patterns, and other investigative clues.

Also, medical examiners'/coroners' (ME/C's) use of PDMPs may itself be an area of new research. For example, how much time does an ME/C save during an investigation by using PDMP data? Can tools specific to the ME/C community be developed by PDMPs? Does tracking ME/C's use of the PDMPs provide any insight or value to understanding the substance use epidemic? The answers to these questions could provide valuable information to the MDI community and other stakeholders.
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                  Medicolegal Death Investigation Webinar Series

  Event Type
              Webinar
    Event Option(s)
          Online,
                        On demand

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Forensic Technology Center of Excellence;National Institute of Justice (NIJ), U.S. Department of Justice
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          Forensic Technology Center of Excellence

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              If you have questions about this course, contact the FTCoE

  Registration Dates
              October 12, 2021 - November 4, 2021

  Registration Status
              Open

  Eligibility
              Free and open to all.

  Credits
              Certificate of completion
    
  
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            Program monitoring
        Controlled substances
        Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
        Drug use
        Medicolegal death investigations
        Medical examiners
        Prescription drugs
        Evidence analysis and processing
        Forensic sciences
        Forensic Technology Center of Excellence
  
Date Created: August 5, 2021
    
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