The stakeholder that I chose to represent prescription drug
abuse is The AMA. For those who don’t keep tabs on all medical associations, I’ll
help you out. The AMA stands for The American Medical Association. I chose this
as my stakeholder because the AMA has long held that, “The central principle of
balance—between preventing controlled substance abuse, trafficking, and
diversion and ensuring access to necessary pain medication should guide
policy-makers as they craft solutions to address these complex problems”(American
Medical Association). Since 2005, the AMA, along with many other stakeholders
in the health care community, has supported and helped secure passage of the
National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act (NASPER) as an
essential tool in combating prescription drug abuse and diversion. Some ideas
the AMA supports are as followed:
-Positive incentives to promote physician education
-Federal funding for a national framework to support accessible
state-level take-back locations to remove unneeded prescription drugs
-Enforcement actions to halt “pill mill” activities
-Full funding and staffing for up-to-date prescription drug
monitoring programs
-State-based tools and resources that support identification
and assessment of state-based addiction
These are just a few ways the AMA is trying to crack down the
issue of prescription drug abuse. They of course realize they can’t do it on
their own so they also collaborate with other people and organizations in order
to get their work done. The following list is a few of the other organizations:
-NCOIL
-The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy software
program "InterConnect" that provides HIPAA compliance.
Its obviously going to take a lot of work, dedication, and
persistence to crack down on the abuse of prescription drugs but I think The
AMA is taking great strides in order to do so.
"Combating
Prescription Drug Abuse and Diversion." American Medical Association.
N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Feb. 2014.
Nice start here, Jessica. You're capturing a wide picture here as far as what the AMA is saying about this issue. A couple of points you may want to consider moving forward: First, you may want to talk to Natalie. It seems to me like you two are doing very similar stakeholders. While yours is a particular group, as the AMA, she listed hers as doctors. She may want to do a different particular group of doctors, or the three of us may want to talk before/after class tomorrow so the two of you can show me how these stakeholders are truly different.
ReplyDeleteSecond, your post highlights just how diverse and widespread this issue can be considered. I appreciate the breadth of your post. That being said, will you being addressing ALL of these things in your speech? Do you think you will have time, especially seeing as you may have to define what some of these things are for your audience? I want you to know that it is ok not to give an entirely comprehensive look at what the AMA is saying about this issue, in favor of gaining some depth about their particular views about some of the subsets of this issue. Whatever way you approach it, I would make sure this is apparent to your audience in your speech.
Third, you do a great job remaining impartial throughout most of the post, but we head back in the direction of opinion toward the end. Try to erase all of the traces of this for your stakeholder speech, if possible. I promise we'll get to those opinions in a little bit!
Let me know if you encounter any questions as you move forward or want to run anything past me…I look forward to seeing your speech on Friday!