Government Websites/Reports

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Vital Signs: Overdoses of Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers --- United States, 1999--2008
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011;60:1487-92.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6043a4.htm

Definitions Related to the Use of Opioids for the Treatment of Pain: Consensus Statement
http://www.asam.org/advocacy/find-a-policy-statement/view-policy-statement/public-policy-statements/2011/12/15/definitions-related-to-the-use-of-opioids-for-the-treatment-of-pain-consensus-statement

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies.
Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS): 1997-2007
National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services, DASIS Series: S-47, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 09-4379, Rockville, MD, 2009.
http://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/teds07/teds2k7a508web.pdf

United States Food and Drug Administration.
Information for Healthcare Professionals Methadone Hydrochloride
Rockville United States Food and Drug Administration; 2006.
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm142841.htm

United States Food and Drug Administration.
Opioid Drugs and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS). 2011.
Available at: http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/informationbydrugclass/ucm163647.htm

Utah Department of Health.
Utah Clinical Guidelines on Prescribing Opioids for Treatment of Pain
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Department of Health; 2009.
http://www.dopl.utah.gov/licensing/forms/OpioidGuidlines.pdf

2008 Department of Defense Survey of Health Related Behaviors Among Active Duty Military Personnel
Department of Defense (2009).
Available at: http://www.tricare.mil/2008HealthBehaviors.pdf
http://www.tricare.mil/2008SurveyQ&As.pdf

Epidemic: Responding to America’s Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). May 20, 2011.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ondcp/policy-and-research/rx_abuse_plan.pdf

Public Health Grand Rounds.
Prescription Drug Overdoses: An American "Epidemic"
Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, Ga. February 17, 2011.
http://www.cdc.gov/about/grand-rounds/archives/2011/01-February.htm

Results from the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH): National Findings
SAMHSA (2010).
http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/2k10NSDUH/2k10Results.htm

2009 Monitoring the Future: A Synopsis of the 2009 Results of Trends in Teen Use of Illicit Drugs and Alcohol.
http://monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/monographs/overview2009.pdf

United States Food and Drug Administration.
Information for Healthcare Professionals: Methadone Hydrochloride
Rockville United States Food and Drug Administration; 2006.
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm142841.htm

United States Food and Drug Administration.
Public Health Advisory: Methadone Use for Pain Control May Result in Death and Life-Threatening Changes in Breathing and Heart Beat
Rockville United States Food and Drug Administration; 2006.
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/DrugSafetyInformationforHeathcareProfessionals/PublicHealthAdvisories/ucm124346.htm

PowerPoint Presentation for the American Society of Addiction Medicine
Federal Regulations for Prescribing a Scheduled Controlled Substance (updated 11-1-2010)
http://www.asam.org/Pain.html
Also available at www.painmed.org:
http://www.painmed.org/library/federal-regulations-for-prescribing/

Practitioner's Manual: An Informational Outline of the Controlled Substances Act. 2010
This manual has been prepared by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Diversion Control, to assist practitioners (physicians, dentists, veterinarians, and other registrants authorized to prescribe, dispense, and administer controlled substances) in their understanding of the Federal Controlled Substances Act and its implementing regulations as they pertain to the practitioner’s.
http://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/pubs/manuals/pract/index.html

NIH Pain Consortium
National Institutes of Health
http://painconsortium.nih.gov/