ALBANY – Governor Andrew Cuomo Monday announced progress in the state’s efforts to crack down on prescription drug abuse through the successful implementation of the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing Act (I-STOP) and other portions of the recent Prescription Drug Reform law. Under this legislation, more than 66,000 health care professionals across the State have run more than seven million individual prescription checks on nearly three million separate patients since August 2013.
By comparison, the State’s older prescription monitoring program that predated these reforms was only utilized by approximately 5,000 practitioners who checked less than 500,000 patients over a three and a half year period.
In a statement, the Governor said Prescription drug abuse is a nationwide epidemic, and with the I-STOP system New York State is showing tremendous success in cracking down on this problem.
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