White House wants states to track drugs

[deadparrot]

White House drug czar John Walters wants more states to track people who get multiple prescriptions of frequently abused drugs, a report said Wednesday.

The national anti-drug strategy Walters announced would prod 20 states and the District of Columbia to set up databases to track drugs such as OxyContin and Vicodin, USA Today reported.

President George Bush's proposed fiscal 2007 budget includes $9.9 million to help establish state drug registries, already adopted in 28 states.

States likely to consider registries include Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont and Washington, said an aide to Walters.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=244161&cat=World

[jrw14125]

1. we like to call this the Executive Limbaugh Order

[livetohike]

2. LOL and welcome to DU!

:hi:

[triguy46]

8. To paraprase anal cyst boy fans, "ditto" n/t

[UpInArms]

3. Why? Are Dimson and Pickles running low? .. eom

[Neshanic]

4. "Herr Drug Czar, there seems to be an uptick in the Limbaugh area".

[Lars39]

5. Lots of chronic pain and terminally ill people going to get scrutinized?

Sounds like another way to mess people over.

[0007]

11. 0h yeah! Jeb Bush's daughter could indeed help the state of Florida

Perhaps Noelle Bush & Rush Limbaugh could be watched more closely than before?



[pop goes the weasel]

15. exactly

An extension of the war on pain patients, because, oh my goodness, some teenager might steal granny's vicodin. And gods forbid the cancer patient be taking morphine as well as using fentanyl. Or need a refill when they accidently spill half the bottle down the drain.

As for people who want to abuse drugs and live life in a fog--that's their choice. I don't see why everyone else should be punished in order to try to control a bunch of knuckleheads who would drink kerosene if they think it will give them a high.

[area51]

16. Well said, pop. (n/t)

[Stand4something]

6. Unbelievable!

I personally know people that are prescribed those meds listed...and they take them within the prescription parameters. Next thing I know, I'll be visiting them in fucking jail. Total waste of MY MONEY and that infuriates me. Can't help those in NOLA or pay for fucking body armor but we can spend money tracking something LEGAL....how much more chaos can these idiots create??????:wtf:

[CountAllVotes]

14. Hi!

:hi: and welcome to the DU!! :hi:

How much more will we the people take? It is disgusting I agree! :nuke:

:kick:

[savemefromdumbya]

7. - should sort out the drug production problem in Afghanistan first

and all the hard drug barons. Hell no, because guess who is involved in the drug trade?

[triguy46]

9. Another justification for domestic surveillance...

watching people legally obtain medications, but 'wink, wink, nudge, nudge' granny might be a junkie and therefore puts us all at risk for homeland neerdowellisms.

[twaddler01]

10. This is sick

:puke:

[politick]

12. One of our many

Wars on something or other. How, I wonder, do the drug companies feel about this? I guess it doens't matter to them since they don't get profits on the resale. There's the problem: the drug companies want in on the bonanza from selling these illegally.

[Pepperbelly]

13. Typical gop AND dea BULLSHIT. The DEA should meth cooks be dissolved.

It is far eaiser and safer for these soul-less fucks to harrass people with chronic pain and doctors than meth cooks. The whole agency should be burned to the ground and the ground alted to keep it from ever growin back.

[rodeodance]

17. pretty soon the WH WANT list is going to backfire. This will cost states$$