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Florida Knows What Medications You are Taking. BTW - F*ck Your Privacy!

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.

The push to crack down on pill mills and stop prescription drug abuse in Florida is taking the shape of more regulation. By law, pharmacists now have to enter certain patients' information into a statewide database that will monitor prescriptions of highly addictive prescription drugs like Oxycontin, Vicodin, Xanax and Ambien, among others. It will not apply to drugs like anti-depressants or blood pressure medications, among others, which are not considered
highly addictive.

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Diane Finch thinks it's a great idea! She knows someone who once struggled with an addiction to prescription drugs and was a so-called doctor shopper. Finch says the addict she knows was having scams and going to Grandma's house in Orlando and getting a doctor there, even though she had a doctor here in Palm Beach County."

To crack down on those people abusing prescription drugs and doctors over-prescribing, pharmacists in Florida now have to report pharmaceutical orders of highly addictive drugs into a statewide database. Finch says, "If you don't have anything to hide, there's nothing to be fearful of a database."

Marcia Hanson says, "I wouldn't want my privacy to be infringed, but if it's something to help, I don't see a problem with that." Besides privacy concerns, some people are worried it could work against legitimate patients with serious health issues needing the medication.

Barry Paraizo, the pharmacist at the Winships Prescription Center, supports the law. However, he says, "Because of a few bad apples, it makes you-some of your patients difficult to fill their prescriptions." That's because pharmacists, like Paraizo, are continuously questioning the authenticity of the patient's need for the medication.

Finch's friend is okay now. Finch says, "Maybe we could've helped her sooner." But she wonders if the database could've sped up her friend's recovery. Jennifer Hirst, a spokeswoman for the FL Dept. Of Health, addresses privacy concerns by saying, "The data will be stored and maintained in a highly secure system."

Read more: http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state/prescription-database-begins-today-in-florida#ixzz28Il5wc00



Added: Oct-4-2012 Occurred On: Oct-4-2012
By: stirgy
In: Regional News, Other News, Conspiracy
Tags: florida, still, sucks, balls, WORST, STATE, EVER
Location: Florida, United States (load item map)
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  • SOME doctors will over-prescribe just because they can get more money. SOME pharmacists will do the same. And, there's piles of money in it. People get the drugs, mix them with other things, sell them pretending they are something else, export them (internationally) so controls are needed over their sale.

    A computerized register of who is buying what is important, although it does mean more controls over the rest of us, more need to be identified and more interference in our lives by bureaucrat More..

    Posted Oct-4-2012 By 
    Triode (464.30)  

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  • That's fucking bullshit about ambien.Do you know it's actual process?It's NOT an opiate or synthetic derivative!FFS!Fucking inbred retard repugs in office!

    Posted Oct-4-2012 By 
    Talos4 (219.20)  

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    • @Talos4 - i was on ambien for maybe a year. Never got addicted to it, just took it when I needed it and when I stopped using it, felt no withdraw symptoms.

      Fucking assholes...

      Posted Oct-4-2012 By 
      stirgy (2284.50)  

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  • North Carolina has the same thing except it is not advertised. The DR's and pharmacists try and keep it on the down low.

    Posted Oct-4-2012 By 
    nokoolaide (10.40)  

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