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Cabinet for Health and Family Services. What is KASPER?. KASPER is Kentucky's Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP). KASPER tracks Schedule II
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1. Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting Trend Reporting Project
2. Cabinet for Health and Family Services What is KASPER? KASPER is Kentuckys Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP). KASPER tracks Schedule II V controlled substance prescriptions dispensed within the state as reported by pharmacies and other dispensers.
KASPER is a Web accessed database that provides a tool to help address one of the largest threats to patient safety in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; the misuse, abuse and diversion of controlled pharmaceutical substances.
3. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Controlled Substance Schedules Schedule I Illegal Drugs
e.g. heroin, marijuana, etc.
Schedule II Most addictive legal drugs; high abuse potential
e.g. oxycodone (Oxycontin, Percocet, Tylox).
Schedule III Less abuse potential than I or II
e.g. hydrocodone combinations (Vicodin, Lortab).
Schedule IV Less abuse potential than III
e.g. benzodiazepines (Xanax, Valium).
Schedule V least abuse potential
e.g. codeine containing cough mixtures.
4. Cabinet for Health and Family Services The Need for KASPER Health care professionals need a tool to help identify patient prescription drug problems and when intervention may be needed.
Diversion of controlled substances is reaching epidemic proportions.
Diverters cover large areas to obtain drugs.
Agencies need efficiency and value in their investigative tools.
5. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Misuse, Abuse, Diversion Misuse:
When a schedule II V substance is taken by an individual for a non-medical reason.
Abuse:
When an individual repeatedly takes a schedule II V substance for a non-medical reason.
Diversion:
When a schedule II V substance is acquired and/or taken by an individual for whom the medication was not prescribed.
6. Cabinet for Health and Family Services The Scope of the Problem
7. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Perspective From 1992 to 2003 the 15.1 million Americans abusing controlled prescription drugs exceeded the combined number abusing:
Cocaine (5.9 million),
Hallucinogens (4.0 million),
Inhalants (2.1 million), and
Heroin (.3 million).
8. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Cough Syrup Cocktails Mixes of codeine-containing cough medicine with soft drinks or sports drinks.
Popularized in rap songs in the late 1990s. Known as Lean, Syrup, Sizzurp or Purple Drank.
Users typically mix an ounce of the medicine with a sports drink, Sprite or Big Red, then plop in a Jolly Rancher candy and pour the mixture over ice.
San Diego Chargers defensive back Terrence Kiel charged in September 2006 with illegally shipping cases of prescription cough medicine to a relative in East Texas.
9. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Pharm Parties Short for pharmaceutical party, a rapidly increasing problem with teens and young adults.
Bowls and baggies of random prescription drugs called trail mix.
Collecting pills from the family medicine cabinet called pharming.
Internet chat rooms are used to share recipes for getting high with prescription drugs.
Users sometimes refer to pills by color rather than brand name, content or potency.
10. Cabinet for Health and Family Services The Results of Rx Drug Abuse February 2006. Eddie Cappiello 22, died of drug overdose after a pharm party with the equivalent of 67 Xanax pills in his system, leaving behind a 6-week old daughter.
June 2006. Justin Knox 22, bit down on Fentanyl patch and died before reaching the hospital.
June 2006. Two Transportation Security Administration screeners pleaded guilty to stealing OxyContin pills from passengers.
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13. Cabinet for Health and Family Services A National Perspective
14. Cabinet for Health and Family Services KASPER KASPER was initiated in 1999 and the Web-based eKASPER launched in 2005.
Between eight and nine million prescriptions for controlled substances are reported to the system each year.
Reports are provided to authorized individuals (KRS 218A.202).
Presently producing over 1,000 reports per day.
15. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Top Prescribed Controlled Substances byTherapeutic Category by Doses
16. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Who Uses KASPER?
17. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Goal of Trend Reporting To allow the professional licensure boards and law enforcement officials to have the tools needed to identify potential hot spots and possible diverters under their scrutiny.
The original mandate was to provide spreadsheet type tools.
By working with our epidemiologist we expanded the concept to include GIS mapping and analysis.
18. Trends Analysis Tools
19. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Tools ArcView 9.1
ArcTool Box
Spatial Autocorrelation
Hot Spot Analysis
Spatial Analyst Extension
Point density analysis
VENN Diagramming
Data Sources
KASPER extracts
U.S. Census 2000
Geographic Levels
County
ZIP code
U.S. Census Block
20. Cabinet for Health and Family Services VENN Diagramming
21. Trends Analysis Methods
23. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Average Prescriptions Dispensed By County
24. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Average Prescriptions Dispensed By County
25. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Average Prescriptions Dispensed By County
26. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Average Prescriptions Dispensed By County
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29. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Quartile GroupingsPatients, Prescribers, Dispensers Geographic Intersection county level
?% patient activity
?% prescriber Rx activity
?% pharmacy dispensing activity
30. Using spatial autocorrelation, hot spot analysis, and point-density analysis Confirming activity clusters and significance
Operation UNITE
31. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Spatial Autocorrelation Determination
32. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Identifying Hot Spots
33. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Confirming Hot Spots with Point Density Analysis
34. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Directional Distribution Hot Spot Area
35. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Directional Distribution - Cumberland
36. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Directional Distribution Big Sandy
37. Concept Development
38. Cabinet for Health and Family Services Partnership Vision
39. Methods Summary Getting from here to there and from who to where
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42. Thank You! KASPER Web site:
www.chfs.ky.gov/KASPER