Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: Florida's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program slated to launch today - OrlandoSentinel.com

Updated July 30, 2026

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• Standards of Practice for the Filling of Controlled Sustance Prescriptions; Electronic Prescribing; Mandatory Continuing Education or
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Updated Dec 31, 2015:

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"Physicians that are not treating patients for chronic nonmalignant pain are not required to register as controlled substance prescribers." - "The Department has received numerous calls in recent weeks from physicians expressing concerns that some pharmacists are not filling controlled substance prescriptions if the physician is not listed as a controlled substance prescriber on the practitioner profile on Department of Health’s website. . . ."

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Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: Florida's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program slated to launch today - OrlandoSentinel.com:  'via Blog this'

Hello!  Doctors in Florida bought 89 percent of all the Oxycodone sold in the country last year. There's current thinking that the illegal sale of prescription drugs, and Oxycodone in particular, boomed in Florida because of the absence of a widely used prescription drug monitoring system and lax state regulations

In a nutshell:
The roughly 4,000 pharmacies permitted in Florida will be required to participate in the new database and monitoring program. So anytime a prescription is dispensed for controlled substances, the doctor and the patient's name will be entered into Florida's database

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California - Guidance On Controlled Substance e-Prescribing

The California State Board of Pharmacy just publicized this guidance document on the e-prescribing of controlled substances that describes DEA requirements, California State Board of Pharmacy and Medical Board of California - Transmission and Receipt of Electronic Controlled Substance Prescriptions (pdf).

It provides an overview of the federal requirements, as they apply to:

1. Prescribers
2. Pharmacies
3. Application Providers

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Updated October 29, 2025

Some of the links in the original post broke.

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DEA alleges Harvard Drug Group sold controlled substances improperly - by Crain's Detroit Business

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Michigan Pharmaceutical Supplier’s DEA License Suspended - Harvard Drug Group, LLC distributed 13 million doses of Oxy from 2008-2010 is yet another warning shot to pharmaceutical distributors.

Adam Fein says "the DEA seems intent on holding drug wholesalers accountable for diversion of controlled substances by the wholesaler’s pharmacy customers." (The DEA Nabs Another Wholesaler)

Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Field Division, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), states in the DEA news release:

"Pharmaceutical companies have a responsibility to ensure that the drugs they sell don’t end up in the hands of drug traffickers or businesses that are conducting their business illegally. Harvard Drug Group, LLC, should have known, based on the large, frequent quantities, that their customers were diverting oxycodone into arenas that were not legitimate. Today’s action sends the message that the DEA is working hard to hold accountable those companies that are operating in a manner outside of federal law."

Be forewarned.

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California Designated Representative Training Courses (approved by the California State Board of Pharmacy) - for wholesalers, 3PL, reverse distributors

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• CA Designated Representative Wholesaler Training - Available around-the-clock 24 x 7
• CA Designated Representative 3PL Training
• CA Designated Representative Reverse Distributor Training  
• The Designated Representative Institute

     Florida:

• Florida Certified Designated Representative - CDR Laws and Rules Examination Prep Course

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     California (earn a training completion certificate):

• CA Home Medical Device Retailer (HMDR) Exemptee Training Course
• The Exemptee Institute