Zombie Drug Fentanyl Patch Prescriptions Clear Decline...The effect of introducing a medical drug administration record check system last year
Jun 23, 2025
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Fentanyl is used as a powerful painkiller, but it is known to be highly addictive even in very small amounts.
According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, the amount of fentanyl patch prescriptions recorded 195,934 units in March, down 7.2% (15,131 units) from 211,065 units in the same month last year.
The prescription volume, which recorded 212,925 sheets in December last year, has been below 200,000 for three consecutive months since it fell to 195,930 in January this year, and the number of prescription patients has remained at the 22,000 mark for three months since it fell from 26,219 in January last year to 22,029 in January this year.
As awareness of drug misuse grew, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety introduced a mandatory system to check the history of medical drugs on June 14 last year and applied fentanyl, a narcotic painkiller, first. Doctors and dentists may not prescribe or administer fentanyl prescriptions if they are concerned about misuse, such as excessive or redundant prescriptions, after viewing the patient's past medication history.
According to the mandatory performance of fentanyl medication history, the government plans to expand medical drugs that allow doctors to check the medication history of prescription patients to ADHD (Attention Deficiency Hyperactivity Disorder) treatments and appetite suppression drugs.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
