Attached a link to a Miami Herald article from Friday, March 11th http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/10/2107891/house-kills-plan-for-drug-monitoring.html reporting that with little debate Thursday morning, the House health and human services committee voted to eliminate the state’s plan for prescription drug monitoring database.Before the vote to eliminate the database, the committee passed a bill that would prohibit doctors from dispensing narcotics, making the drugs largely available only at pharmacies. It would would require wholesale distributors of narcotics to report who they are selling the drugs to so law enforcement officials can identify unusually large purchases. The bill calls for appropriating $1.5 million to track down the large, non-pharmacy dispensaries and return the drugs to wholesalers.
Our legislators also decided to eliminate registration and inspection of pain clinics, and a ban on felons owning pain clinics.
Obviously, the committee chairman,Robert Schenck (R-Spring Hill) and his fellow legislators believe that our already burdened law enforcement officers will do a better job to crack down on drug dealers in white coat and the OxyCartel. But even Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti pointed out that we cannot arrest ourselves out of the problem! Meanwhile, the drug dealers can rest assured that Florida is wide open for their business and that no one will bother them anymore to ask for clinic registration or physician ownership verification. Maybe we should post a sign at the state border: Felons welcome!
Something is rotten in the state of Florida.
Yours
Bernd
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