Stop ?Big Brother? from snooping around your medicine cabinet!: "Do you want the government to have a record of every prescription you get? Every painkiller? Every anti-depressant? Every sleeping pill? And then to pass that information along to law enforcement to prosecute you and your doctor if they don?t like what they find?
The National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act (H.R. 3015) was passed by the House, but hasn?t been passed yet in the Senate so we still have time to stop it.
While masquerading as a law enforcement tool to help control the illegal use of painkillers, the national bill would cast a net so wide that tens of millions of suffering patients & doctors will be snared in suspicion. Not limited to prescriptions for painkillers, it would create a central database affecting tens of millions who are not even suspected of a crime. And the information will be shared with state and local law enforcement.
Prosecutors and law enforcement already second-guess doctors and prosecute them for prescribing ?too much? or if they decide the patient doesn?t ?deserve? treatment.
Overzealous prosecutors have already frightened many doctors out of prescribing pain treatment for the almost 50 million patients who suffer from pain. We can?t let them do it to the rest of us as well.
Do you want law enforcement deciding who ?deserves? medicines?"
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