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Reinforced Management over Controlled 4
Drugs and Prevention Against Drug
Abuse
▍ Achievements and Benefits took place on October 18, 2022. US DEA
Supervisor Jennifer Jimenez, UCLA Professor
I. Added/Revised controlled Yih-Ing Hser, and many other domestic
drugs and active experts and scholars were invited to exchange
pharmaceutical ingredients with one another and share what they knew
included in control about the management of controlled drugs in
Taiwan and the US and the use of controlled
The Ministry of Health and Welfare drugs for medical purpose, among others.
convened the 45th and 46th Controlled Drugs
Review Committee meeting in 2022 to add Section 2
a total of 311 items of controlled drugs and
APIs. Advancement
in the Quality of
II. Implemented project- Schedule 1 and 2
based audits and enhanced Controlled Drugs
knowledge and skills of
healthcare professionals in ▍ Introduction of the Policy
the use of controlled drugs
In 2020, multiple R&D projects
The audit project was enforced for commenced at TFDA’s pharmaceutical factory
controlled drugs in 2022; a total of 188 (hereinafter referred to as the Factory) for
companies were inspected and 37 were controlled drugs with the aim of enhancing
found with violations, with a violation rate of product quality and expanding capacity. The
19.68%. Meanwhile, the “Pain Care Reference plan is to produce products that are currently
Handbook for Patients on Palliative Care” and outsourced or imported from other countries
the “Pain Care Reference Handbook for Non- independently. Renovated workshops were
cancer Patients with Suspected Substance also completed and commissioned in 2021
Use Disorders” were prepared in addition to fulfill the goal of local manufacturing
to a total of 6 sessions of online educational of essential drugs and ensuring a sufficient
training. Knowledge and skills of healthcare supply.
professionals on the use of controlled drugs in
patients were enhanced to prevent iatrogenic
addiction. In addition, the “2022 U.S.-Taiwan
Web Conference on Controlled Drugs”
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