From SAMHSA's Weekly Financing News Pulse: National Edition - August 26, 2011: Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia have formed a task force to combat prescription drug abuse through increased enforcement, treatment, and prevention activities.  Under the Interstate Prescription Drug Task Force, each state will maintain its own prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) data but share it with other states upon request.  The task force will focus on treatment, law enforcement, education, and monitoring.  Groups of experts will devise policy recommendations for each focus area by this fall.

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