About Us

The Florida PDMP Foundation, Inc., has conducted meetings to initiate its status as a 501(c)(3), pending IRS approval, non-profit organization and to further refine its fundraising plans. The Foundation consists of both community and business leaders working to save lives through fundraising for the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PMDP) to combat the deadly consequences of drug abuse and diversion. The Foundation is comprised of a state county sheriff, a President of a Florida-based health care company, an officer of a bank located in Florida, a former director of the Office of Drug Control, the CEO of a company that conducts educational training and an attorney focused on assisting this non-profit.

In short, the Foundation seeks to prevent more parents and family members from losing loved ones and friends from accidental overdose due to prescription drug-related incidents by putting “pill mills” out of business while improving patient standard of care in our state.

Our Mission

The mission of the Florida PDMP Foundation, Inc., is to conduct fundraising for the benefit of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, in order to reduce prescription drug abuse and diversion.

The Foundation’s funding will benefit the Florida Department of Health in its furtherance of Florida’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in accordance with section-893.055, Florida Statutes.  Thus, the Foundation will be key to combating the rampant prescription drug abuse and diversion that causes so many deaths (2,488 individuals in 2009) and the terrible impact upon the individual, family, friends and workplace due to addiction. It will also assist with preventing unethical and potentially criminal physicians from practicing in pill mills and doctor-shoppers and pharmacies from colluding with the pill mills. In addition, Florida is known as a “source state” throughout the East by doctor-shoppers and addicts seeking cheap drugs.  Lastly, but possibly the most important attribute, it will provide practitioners the ability to check the database for their patients’ prescription history and thereby improve their patients’ standard of care, due to the ability to:

• Review complex prescribing for the elderly
• Check to ensure new prescriptions will not negatively interact with existing prescriptions
• Review to ensure patients do not need additional medicines or increased dosages to prevent over-prescribing
• Reduce excess prescription drugs in medicine cabinets; the highest source of prescription drug diversion
• Detect doctor-shopping, stop potential addiction and selling of drugs