A prescription-monitoring system is about to go online in Tennessee.
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Kevin – Pharmacists have been doing this confidentially amoungst themselves for years. This just makes it easier for them to do it and cover both the doc and the pharmacist/pharmacy.
My problem with this is that I see no reason why I, as someone who may need treatment with controlled drugs some day, should give up my right to privacy so the government can stop drug addicts from voluntarily engaging in stupid self-harmful behavior.
We have surrendered too much of freedom and privacy to the war on drugs. I am ready to just let them use all they want and even sell them OTC in exchange for my rights as a non-addict back. We can have the sanitation dept pick the bodies up in the morning.
We see this with other meds besides narcotics. We get at least one patient a week in heart block or severe bradycardia from taking 3 AV nodal blocking agents from 3 different docs.
And when we call the docs, they always say “but the pt said he wasn’t on any meds!:
Until we can acutally access pt’s medical records, accurate information in the pharmacy is the patients’ best defense against receiving meds that will make them sicker.
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