Every state in the union, with the exception of ours, Missouri, has a prescription drug database that monitors opiate and opioid drug prescriptions, so that pharmacies can see if patients are getting extra drugs from different prescriptions and/or physicians.
This to try to control to some degree the massive increase in drug overdose cases and also people moving from these drugs to heroin.
Last year, in our county, we lost more people to drug overdose than to firearm violence.
But one Republican senator has been blocking the bill for several years, citing individual privacy. He says databases in other states have been "hacked".
Pharmacists say that they use the same type of database for other drugs without problems.
This to try to control to some degree the massive increase in drug overdose cases and also people moving from these drugs to heroin.
Last year, in our county, we lost more people to drug overdose than to firearm violence.
But one Republican senator has been blocking the bill for several years, citing individual privacy. He says databases in other states have been "hacked".
Pharmacists say that they use the same type of database for other drugs without problems.
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