Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o...
by nradov on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:42AM
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Between Surescripts providing centralized medication history, and statewide controlled substance prescription registries, doctors can no longer claim ignorance when dealing with drug-seeking patients. But those sources of information were spotty and incomplete up to a few years ago.
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Re:Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of o...
by nastysquar3d on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:57AM
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This is exactly right. My wife is a pharmacist and our state only recently implemented the database of medication history. In the past a seeker could go to any doctor, or any pharmacist and they would have no idea of this patients medical / prescription history. So even if they denied the patient their prescription, they would just go somewhere else. When WV tightened the restrictions and limits on suboxone seekers would just leave the state to get ahold of it.