I've been wathing the interest how each state has an agenda unique to their PMP since I was a little boy in New York. Back in the 1970's and 1980's New York had their Official New Yorsk Prescriptions provided as triplicates. Any Schedule II CS required a Doctor write you an RX on these pads. They snapped out two copies for you and kept one for their records. You took the original and a carbon copy to a Pharmacy where the Pharmacist kept the original and send the carbon copy to the NYS Department of Health. In 1989 NY placed all bezos in Schedule II so now you needed a triplicate for any benzo. I remember how this backfired. Doctors were avoiding being monitored by writting Rx for really bad stuff like barbituates, meprobamate, and cloral hydrate. SO NYS went to a single copy electronically transferred NYS Official RX for all schedules. It reduced that intimidation that those original triplicates caused and was a good public health move. NY is the Grandfather of RX monitoring beginning in 1972, but since 2005 almost every other state has implimented a PMP and with very serious consequences for anybody and their children who might be getting some Ritalin, Lortab, Adderall, Valium, stc.
While most northern states protect patient privacy and only allow Practitioners and Pharmacists to access the database other states have gievn any member of Law Enforcement unresticted access without any requirement but to verbally affirm an investigation.
If you read the documentation provided by Rx Sentry who provides the PMP infrastructure you will see that the claim by the DEA, Whitehouse and other persons of interest that it merely provides a way to check for Doctor shoppers you will be shocked at the softwares ability to develop a pattern of behavior from the time you leave you house until you take the Rx to te pharmacy. One function determines mileage and maps of your trip to the Doctors, a map and the mileage to the Pharmacy. It etermines how many different pharmacies you fill your RX and how many Doctors you are seeing. It determines every controlled substance you fill, tallies up the quantity, talllies up the number of days of medication and it compares your prescription amounts against other people in your county. It tracks dates and times the RX are filled and if you pay cash. It provides a screen with the Doctors who write the most number of prescriptions and the type of medication. Then it compares them to other Doctors in the county. It also determines the Pharmacies that fill the most prescriptions and each type of medication they fill. It provides the ability to generate a list of people and their medications who live close to Churches and schools. Finally it is set up so multiple states can connect their databases and watch for people who might fill their medications in two states.
I am sorry to see that with each state getting about $20,000,000 from the DEA this setup has costs over a billion dollars.
this 1 billion dollar experiement by the governemnt. Since prescription diversion is more of a crisis created by the government this billion dolllar invasion of privacy and law enforcement toy is going to tell us that 99% of the people listed are good law abiding citizens, 97% of Doctors are doing their job and %99.9999 of Pharmacists are a great addition to the police state of medicine, and the taxpayers don't even have to pay them.
I don't know what to make this post about except which states use their PMP for public health and nobody is going to get your records without a search warrent. New York is a great state since its PMP is there to help Doctors and Pharmacists verify a new patient isn't getting the same pills from a Doctor up the street. It's also run by the Department of Health. If you are tagged all the state will do is admit you to a recovery center.
As for you folks down south it's the police that use the PMP and its the Police that decide if you and your Doctor are practicing bad medicine. I was already spooked the day I walked into my Pharmacy and behind the counter a Police Officer was checking the monitor. Apparently not only can they get whatever they want from the state PMP they can also deamnd a Pharmacist allow them access to the pharmacy area and if told to do so, a list of any customers prescription history going back 3 years.
Asfor Pharmacist and Officer they were on a first name basis, they attnd the same Church and were talking about theupocming back sale. As my privacy was being trashed the two of tem agreed if the weather is nice next Sunday aftr Church they should go fishing.
As for me, I am seeing a way to remain under the radar. Thee are states that will not allow the use of a PMP, there are legitimate online Pharmacies located in states other than my own and there is the number one way. When family or friends no longer need their medciation ask them if you can have what's left. This whose system is a crock of shit and when parents get a visit from the police because th state PMP lists their 11 year old child as a person who just got a new Ritalin presciption and that the police are visiting all parents and wanting to question any children who take riitalin just maybe this system will be seen what is is truly for, marking innocent people as "persons of interest".
While most northern states protect patient privacy and only allow Practitioners and Pharmacists to access the database other states have gievn any member of Law Enforcement unresticted access without any requirement but to verbally affirm an investigation.
If you read the documentation provided by Rx Sentry who provides the PMP infrastructure you will see that the claim by the DEA, Whitehouse and other persons of interest that it merely provides a way to check for Doctor shoppers you will be shocked at the softwares ability to develop a pattern of behavior from the time you leave you house until you take the Rx to te pharmacy. One function determines mileage and maps of your trip to the Doctors, a map and the mileage to the Pharmacy. It etermines how many different pharmacies you fill your RX and how many Doctors you are seeing. It determines every controlled substance you fill, tallies up the quantity, talllies up the number of days of medication and it compares your prescription amounts against other people in your county. It tracks dates and times the RX are filled and if you pay cash. It provides a screen with the Doctors who write the most number of prescriptions and the type of medication. Then it compares them to other Doctors in the county. It also determines the Pharmacies that fill the most prescriptions and each type of medication they fill. It provides the ability to generate a list of people and their medications who live close to Churches and schools. Finally it is set up so multiple states can connect their databases and watch for people who might fill their medications in two states.
I am sorry to see that with each state getting about $20,000,000 from the DEA this setup has costs over a billion dollars.
this 1 billion dollar experiement by the governemnt. Since prescription diversion is more of a crisis created by the government this billion dolllar invasion of privacy and law enforcement toy is going to tell us that 99% of the people listed are good law abiding citizens, 97% of Doctors are doing their job and %99.9999 of Pharmacists are a great addition to the police state of medicine, and the taxpayers don't even have to pay them.
I don't know what to make this post about except which states use their PMP for public health and nobody is going to get your records without a search warrent. New York is a great state since its PMP is there to help Doctors and Pharmacists verify a new patient isn't getting the same pills from a Doctor up the street. It's also run by the Department of Health. If you are tagged all the state will do is admit you to a recovery center.
As for you folks down south it's the police that use the PMP and its the Police that decide if you and your Doctor are practicing bad medicine. I was already spooked the day I walked into my Pharmacy and behind the counter a Police Officer was checking the monitor. Apparently not only can they get whatever they want from the state PMP they can also deamnd a Pharmacist allow them access to the pharmacy area and if told to do so, a list of any customers prescription history going back 3 years.
Asfor Pharmacist and Officer they were on a first name basis, they attnd the same Church and were talking about theupocming back sale. As my privacy was being trashed the two of tem agreed if the weather is nice next Sunday aftr Church they should go fishing.
As for me, I am seeing a way to remain under the radar. Thee are states that will not allow the use of a PMP, there are legitimate online Pharmacies located in states other than my own and there is the number one way. When family or friends no longer need their medciation ask them if you can have what's left. This whose system is a crock of shit and when parents get a visit from the police because th state PMP lists their 11 year old child as a person who just got a new Ritalin presciption and that the police are visiting all parents and wanting to question any children who take riitalin just maybe this system will be seen what is is truly for, marking innocent people as "persons of interest".