Push technology solutions to combat interstate doctor shopping and shut down the pill pipeline across state borders.

Harold Rogers · Kentucky · Republican

policy impact 0.71 specificity 0.86 extraction confidence 95%

Occurrences

In recent months, he has pushed for technology solutions that will combat interstate doctor shopping and shut down the pill pipeline across state borders.

Rogers commits to pursuing technology-based measures against interstate doctor shopping and pill diversion.

Rogers Highlights Prescription Drug Abuse at Judiciary, Appropriations Committee Hearings; Pushes for Legislative Solutions - Press Releases - U.S. Congressman Hal Rogers
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Evidence

Rogers said he voted this week for the HALT Fentanyl Act and the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act, describing them as legislation to combat the opioid epidemic and stop the flow of illicit fentanyl.

Recent official statement shows Rogers continuing to support federal anti-opioid legislation, including measures aimed at fentanyl trafficking and opioid abuse.

partial later_term A for effort

Congressman Rogers Continues Efforts to Expand Services and Federal Support in Rural America - Press Releases - U.S. Congressman Hal Rogers
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The enacted law reauthorizes opioid-response programs and includes Section 105, 'Promoting state choice in PDMP systems.'

Federal law now includes a PDMP-related provision consistent with Rogers's long-running push for prescription monitoring and interstate abuse prevention.

partial later_term A for effort

SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025
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Rogers said it was time to link PDMP systems to eliminate interstate doctor shopping fueling the pill pipeline.

This is the clearest original statement of the promise: interstate PDMP connectivity to stop doctor shopping and pill trafficking across borders.

partial same_term A for effort

Congressman Rogers, Wolf and Senators Portman, Whitehouse Introduce Legislation to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse
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Assessments

partial later_term A for effort

Rogers clearly made and advanced the relevant federal push in office, including introducing 2012 legislation aimed at linking prescription drug monitoring programs to reduce interstate doctor shopping and the pill pipeline. Later federal opioid legislation included PDMP-related provisions and Rogers continued supporting opioid-response bills, but the evidence does not show that his specific promised outcome, robust interstate PDMP connectivity sufficient to shut down cross-border doctor shopping and the pill pipeline, was fully enacted or achieved. Because there was serious legislative effort and later partial policy movement, but not full delivery of the promised result, this merits partial credit rather than delivered.

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