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Tweaks to C.U.R.E.S. Database Reporting and Access
The Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (C.U.R.E.S.) is a prescription monitoring program maintained by California’s licensed physicians, licensed physician assistants, licensed pharmacies, licensed pharmacists, and any other prescribing California health care professionals. On October 2, 2018, the California Department of Justice (DOJ) certified the mandatory statewide …
California’s Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System, or C.U.R.E.S. (CURES) for short, is a prescription monitoring program aggregating DEA Schedule II, II and IV prescriptions. Maintained by the California Department of Justice and primarily used by physicians, podiatrists, dentists, physician assistants, optometrists, nurse practitioners, pharmacies and pharmacists, C.U.R.E.S. represents a massive, relatively…
As I have written about before, the C.U.R.E.S. database was created and is maintained by the California Department of Justice to track the prescriptions of Californians. The purpose of this database is ostensibly to detect patient prescription drug abuse and over-prescribing by physicians. However, C.U.R.E.S. is a huge medical information database that is unprotected from unchecked…
For about 70 years, the California Department of Justice tracked prescriptions of narcotic medications as a means to detect prescription drug abuse. In 2008, then-Attorney General Jerry Brown set out to modernize the system, which came to be known as CURES, or Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System, so that instead of calling or…
