Opioid crisis & court orders & statewide databases

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New Jersey is the latest state to consider allowing law enforcement access to its statewide prescription drug monitoring database without a court order, pitting patient privacy rights against government snooping.

Nationally, the number of deaths from opioid drugs nearly doubled from a decade ago.

States are grappling with how much leeway to give law enforcement when it comes to examining medical databases.

“Broadly allowing local police to look into people’s private medical records without a warrant is appalling,” said...

Full story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.0bd3893f8449

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This is a very interesting subject. Noticing the national uptick for heroin and heroin type of drugs overdoses. I recently asked a very knowledgeable anesthesiologist where are all these fentanyl derivatives coming from?

The answer was simple, mostly from China and other nations. These drugs enter the USA in BULK compounds labelled for commercial veterinarian farm use and such.

So the moral here is that a nationwide drug registry will have little to zero affect on heroin and heroin copycat drugs with Fentanyl overdoses. Besides, there already is many databases used to prevent drug shopping, especially in Florida.

If you want to stop fentanyl overdoses, customs and the DEA need to figure out a way to stymie the tons of compound drugs coming in at our borders.

To stop opiate pill abuse, that solution is very simple. They need to serialize every pill. When pills are found, they can be traced to the patient that got, them. The drug companies can easily do this, but they will resist, as even illegal sales of their product at the end of the day, are still sales.

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To stop opiate pill abuse, that solution is very simple. They need to serialize every pill. When pills are found, they can be traced to the patient that got them. The drug companies can easily do this, but they will resist.

I took a theft report at a nursing home where a nurse was stealing old people's prescribed opiate pills and was replacing them with inert look-alike pills. Are you suggesting that every pill should have its own serial number? Or a batch number?