Post by Logan on May 13, 2016 12:37:09 GMT -6
Missouri drug monitoring program stalls in the Senate once again
JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri is the only state that hasn’t established a prescription drug monitoring program.
That seems unlikely to change this year.
A bill allowing the state Department of Health and Senior Services to start a database that would track opioid prescriptions passed the Missouri House earlier this year. It’s proponents say it would help prevent doctor shopping, by which people get medicine from multiple physicians to feed an addiction, or to sell.
Forty-nine other states use a similar program to identify people who acquire excess prescriptions for addictive painkillers and tranquilizers, as well as the physicians who over prescribe them.
But opponents — most notably Republican Sen. Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph — have argued that in other states with a database patient privacy has been breached. Additionally, they argue, a drug database represents an infringement on personal liberty
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article77334262.html
JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri is the only state that hasn’t established a prescription drug monitoring program.
That seems unlikely to change this year.
A bill allowing the state Department of Health and Senior Services to start a database that would track opioid prescriptions passed the Missouri House earlier this year. It’s proponents say it would help prevent doctor shopping, by which people get medicine from multiple physicians to feed an addiction, or to sell.
Forty-nine other states use a similar program to identify people who acquire excess prescriptions for addictive painkillers and tranquilizers, as well as the physicians who over prescribe them.
But opponents — most notably Republican Sen. Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph — have argued that in other states with a database patient privacy has been breached. Additionally, they argue, a drug database represents an infringement on personal liberty
Read more here: www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article77334262.html