Comments on: Debate Continues Over Florida Pill Abuse

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:59:36 +0000

All this will do is make it more expensive for the uninsured and drive the cost of malpractice insurance WAY UP. If your doc feels like there being watched like a hawk there going to make you see them every month instead of every other month. This way they can cover there rear a little more. Your doc will be more hesitant to write a refill on things like celebrex, lirica, talison. Simple everyday scripts that really don’t need to be monitored monthly. Micromanagement never works out for the best. Most people that are doing Loratab, Xnax, oxy, are getting it from someone selling there grandmother’s script. You cant stop that by following the doc around.It just like the phudodeprin being put behind the counter, it’s not stoping meth from being made.

By: Torn

Torn — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:48:31 +0000

It seems to me that a much simpler answer would be effective. A pharmacy database to track our prescriptions FILLED, along with doctors only being allowed to WRITE prescriptions and a little attention to detail by pharmacists should at least minimize the “shopping” issue. If a new prescription is written, require the remainder of the old prescription to be returned before filling the new one. Or, how about software-based prescription-writing? The doctor orders the prescription directly from the pharmacy and the pharmacy notifies the doctor that this person just got a prescription for 120 lortabs! Then the person is flagged by both the doctor AND the pharmacy database!

By: RNinTN

RNinTN — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:54:55 +0000

i think both laws should be in effect. The doctors that dispense narcotics out of their office will just write multiple scripts to the addicts they already supply. that way the patient can not “doctor shop.”
Here in Tn when somebody checks into the emergency room a print out is generated with all their meds they have gotten filled. If someone is on Tenncare (state aid) they can and will lose their benefits if they are proven to be doctor shopping for narcotics.
Even with all this people will find some way to get their drugs. Prescription drug abuse is a bigger problem then illicit drugs. Those addicts just have a way to pay for the drugs (insurance) rather then robbing and stealing.

By: Horrific!

Horrific! — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:47:27 +0000

Sorry that wasn’t suposed to say “issued”
It was suppose to say we have so many “issues”. As in health issues.

By: Horrific!

Horrific! — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:45:26 +0000

Lets face it, this is just another law that will be expensive to enforce,
and we are out of money in america. It also will not work!
Just another stupid idea by stupid IDEA MEN.

By: Horrific!

Horrific! — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:40:45 +0000

This is stupid as far as I’m concerned. This is like saying no one can drive
because some people are DUI drivers. Who is going to write prescriptions?
Or are they all allowed to write prescriptions just not have shots and drugs at
their offices?
I have a very good doctor and we talk about about ALL our MY drugs and MY
husbands drugs. We have so many issued it’s sometimes hard to manage.
Even tho we eat right and do everything we can some of it is in our genes and
very hard to fight. What are people supposed to do? Is this all drugs like
my heart meds. and my husbands diabetes meds, or just pain pills?

It doesn’t matter who give us meds, people will find a way to abuse them
selves, look at alcohol and paint. Who are we kidding with this. Who
would have thought that sudefed would ever be a problem?

By: mary

mary — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:30:01 +0000

where there’s a will there’ s a way to get drugs