Showing posts with label Jerry Brown. Show all posts
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

California's RX Monitoring Program in Peril



I was listening to NPR this morning, and I heard a story about yet another valuable program being lost to budget cuts.

Last year Gov. Brown announced that he was eliminating the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement which allows providers, pharmacies, and law enforcement to monitor prescriptions filled throughout the state.

"The rest of the country is developing prescription monitoring programs, not abandoning them," Fishman said. Calif.'s Prescription-Drug Monitoring System Feels Pain From Budget Cuts


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