Oklahoma and Appriss Health Announce First Year Outcomes on Integration of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Data into Providers Electronic Workflows Advancing
State funded PMP Gateway connection helping 8,000 doctors improve patient safety when prescribing or dispensing opioids
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OKLAHOMA CITY and LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Prescribers in Oklahoma have made more than 15.5 million patient queries to the state s prescription monitoring program (PMP) database in the first year of an initiative between the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN) and Appriss Health, a leader in cloud-based care coordination software and analytics solutions focused on behavioral health and substance use disorders that delivers seamless access to PMP data within the electronic health record (EHR) and pharmacy management systems (PMS) of physicians across the state.
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By: Hunter McKee
LOGAN COUNTY -
A drug bust in Logan County, involving large quantities of marijuana, could be part of a larger criminal organization, according to investigators. The bust was made Friday on two properties following a search warrant, where the pot was reportedly being sold illegally.
The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics said 23 people were detained and questioned from the two properties. At one of the locations, there were eleven people, and at another one there were 12, said Mark Woodward, with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.
However, no arrests have been made yet. Some of them may have been workers who didn t understand the complexities of the criminal involvement, Woodward said. All the way up to those who were orchestrating the black-market deals.
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In Guthrie, dump trucks full of marijuana plants were seized Friday morning.
The operation has a license to grow medical marijuana, but after months of investigating, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics says the product was being sold on the black market.
“Our information shows they’re a criminal organization that is moving large quantities of marijuana on the black market under the guise of Oklahoma’s medical marijuana program, said Mark Woodward, a spokesperson for the OBN.
The OBN says it took 11 people into custody who they believe were from Taiwan and China and did not speak English.
The day focuses on getting potentially harmful drugs out of your home.
Since 2011 around 180,000 pounds have been collected in Oklahoma. It is something that just takes a little bit of thought and time but could save a life.
Mark Woodward, spokesman Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics says, “Well, unfortunately, we have seen some tragic outcomes of people overdosing and dying from medication like opioids and when you do an investigation you find that they stole them out of the medicine cabinet of a purse and oftentimes the relative will say I forgot I even had those.”
Woodward knows it is something many of us don t think about.