e-Health and Narcotics Prescribing
This insight is about the new Florida law regarding prescribing narcotics. This law was approved in an effort to reduce the so-called “pill mill” and doctors shopping. From now on, each health care provider wishing to either prescribe or dispense (doctors/pharmacists) controlled substances, need to be registered and report to a statewide electronic database. This will allow a record keeping and tracking of patients who tend to abuse from controlled substances, in an effort to cut down the illegal and improper use of these drugs. The facts are that in Florida 7 people die each day from narcotic overdose, being Oxycodone the most abused one. Florida has 49 out of the 50 top narcotic prescribing physicians. These are the reasons to embrace and welcome the Florida new prescribing law and the transmission of health related information across the created database. This, certainly, will reduce the misuse of controlled substances, which are so detrimental for people, and set a starting point and pattern for illegal drug abuse. The inter discipline exchange of health related information will allow to diminish such indecorous aspect of Florida state.
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