Good points made here on the use by law enforcement with having access to prescriptions...definitely some need for rules and guidelines as to how one would be seen through the eyes of law enforcement and how an individual would be treated as their concern is working a criminal case versus health care from the other side of the coin...and the matter of privacy enters once more...BD
In the eyes of the police, every pain patient -- and consider that some 30 percent of the population suffers some form of chronic pain -- is junky slime. Cops think that possession of a high dose prescription for opioids is a sign of drug abuse-- but it's more likely to be a sign of severe pain, well treated.
Just contemplate for a moment how much information your complete prescription records give to the police. From this data, the cops can tell if you suffer depression, HIV, anxiety, herpes, impotence, cancer and many other disorders many people prefer not to broadcast. If there is any information that should be protected from warrantless fishing expeditions, it's gotta be your pharmacy records. If the supposed health care privacy act HIPAA is anything more than a paperwork tree-killing bonanza, it must prohibit this ridiculous type of data mining. But Vermont pharmacists are being told that it doesn't.
Even politicians have gotta wonder: do I really want the state looking at my Viagra script?
0 comments :
Post a Comment