Governor Crist signs new prescription drug tracking bill
Florida Governor Charlie Crist signed a prescription drug tracking bill into law. Until this law was signed, Florida was among a number of states without a prescription monitoring program. The new law will create a database where doctors and pharmacists will be required to record prescriptions for most drugs given to patients. The law’s goal is to close what some have called a “pipeline” for drugs that leads to other states and to detect and prevent “doctor shopping”. Boyd County, Kentucky Sheriff Terry Keelin stated that the majority of people arrested by his department for drug crimes are getting their pills from Florida pain clinics. .
