54.1-2523.1 - Criteria for indicators of misuse; Director's authority to disclose information; intervention.

§ 54.1-2523.1. Criteria for indicators of misuse; Director's authority todisclose information; intervention.

The Director shall develop, in consultation with an advisory panel, criteriafor indicators of misuse and a method for analysis of data collected by thePrescription Monitoring Program using the criteria for indicators of misuse.Upon the development of such criteria and data analysis, the Director may, inaddition to the discretionary disclosure of information pursuant to §54.1-2523, disclose information using the criteria that indicates potentialmisuse by recipients of covered substances to their specific prescribers forthe purpose of intervention to prevent such misuse.

(2005, cc. 637, 678.)