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AG’s Plan Aims to Curb Prescription Drug Abuse

By Steven Rodriguez

This week California Attorney General Edmund Brown announced a plan to curb prescription drug abuse. Prescription drugs are the most abused drugs in America, particularly among teens, young adults, women and seniors. Brown’s plan would make patients’ prescription drug histories available to doctors and pharmacies on an internet data base. The data base would be constantly updated to provide medical personnel with real-time drug histories to prevent drug abusers from obtaining multiple prescriptions from different doctors. “Every year, thousands of doctors try to check their patients’ prescription drug use history but the state’s database is difficult to access,” Brown said in a press release. “If California puts this information online, with real-time access, it will give doctors and pharmacies the technology they need to fight prescription drug abuse which is burdening our healthcare system...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).