On January 26, 2012, ASAM issued a press release announcing its new public policy statement, "Measures to Counteract Prescription Drug Diversion, Misuse and Addiction." The new policy calls for mandatory education for prescribers of all controlled substance, patient education, full use of state prescription drug monitoring programs and continued research on the patterns of manufacture, distribution and sales of psychoactive drugs which have the potential for diversion and misuse. Read
ASAM's Measures to Counteract Prescription Drug Diversion, Misuse and Addiction.