Efforts to track abuse of pain killers have stepped up in New Jersey, where pharmacies are now helping flag illegal use of pills. By entering the narcotics into a statewide database, pharmacists have expanded their role in the war on prescription drugs.
The database for narcotics like the pain reliever OxyContin is routinely monitored by physicians, pharmacists, and law enforcers to help identify drug abusers who manipulate the medical system to obtain pills for their own addictions or to sell in the lucrative street drug trade that rivals heroin and cocaine. (Fitzgerald, NJ Spotlight)
2 comments:
As much as pharmacists have done to help, they still are sued and have to pay multi-million dollar awards because employees sometimes steal from them.
Just ask Hastings.
This is needed as it helps prevent people from using multiple doctors and multiple pharmacies from getting highly dangerous and highly marketable drugs.
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