State Unveils New Prescription Drug Reporting Tool

HARRISBURG, PA — Pennsylvania has launched a new online tool that will allow residents to report suspicious activity about prescription drugs. Governor Tom Wolf and Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the new feature during a public event this week.

The new tool aims to track down suspected diversion of prescription drugs from doctors’ offices and pharmacies that is contributing to the state's opioid epidemic.

“This new reporting tool, which is available online to everyone, allows people to anonymously give our office detailed information about suspected diversion so we are better able to arrest and prosecute the criminals who are poisoning our communities for their own profit," Shapiro said.

The suspicious activity report form is fully integrated into the Commonwealth’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Tool (PDMP) and can also be accessed by anyone at www.attorneygeneral.gov/Rx.

Medical professionals are the most likely to identify suspicious prescription drug activity, but any Pennsylvanian can access and use the reporting tool.

“I’m proud that more than 90,000 PDMP users are conducting more than 1.6 million searches each month to ensure controlled substances such as opioids are being responsibility prescribed and dispensed,” Wolf said.

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