Florida Gov. Rick Scott rejects $1M from OxyContin maker to fund drug database

[seafan]

Source: St. Petersburg Times

One of the country's largest drug manufacturers is offering a $1 million donation to help pay for a prescription database to combat Florida's illegal trade in painkillers. But with the future of the database now in doubt in Tallahassee, the state is not likely to accept the offer from the maker of OxyContin.

Gov. Rick Scott, who wants to do away with the database altogether, said he's not interested in the money.

Two years ago, the state Legislature overwhelmingly approved the creation of a statewide prescription drug monitoring program to try to curb an epidemic of drug overdoses and narcotics trafficking spawned by storefront pain clinics, most of them in South Florida. The database would allow physicians and investigators to identify "doctor shopping" patients who go from doctor to doctor to obtain prescriptions for potent painkillers such as oxycodone.

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But Scott and others in the state capital now want to kill the database, saying it's a needless intrusion on patients' privacy. Scott has already eliminated the office that was raising money for the database.

Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/gov-rick-scott-rejects-1m-from-oxycontin-maker-to-fund-drug-database/1156289

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Some of the very worst illegal traffickers of prescription painkillers are hiding out in Florida.

And our criminal fraudster governor and his henchmen in the Legislature want to protect them.


The radical right wing has overwhelmed Florida. And there is no end in sight.

[Wilms]

1. As he accepts free advertising from an OxyContin TAKER.

Yep.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Scott should look under fatass Limbaugh's mattess.

[BenzoDia]

3. Seems like plenty of people could use the work of installing and maintaing the database, no?

[QC]

4. I wonder if Scott owns any pill mills?

It would not surprise me, given the man's utter moral squalor.

[Dappleganger]

6. If he doesn't he has friends who do, no doubt.

[QC]

8. In Florida, as you know, corruption is always a likely explanation

for pretty much anything an elected official might do.

I would not be at all surprised if Scott was making money off the drug abuse industry.

[GOPNotForMe]

5. I feel your pain. I'm down here too.

Has to be the "darkest before dawn" thing....right? I hope...

[Dappleganger]

7. I wish but have that horrible feeling that there is a lot more stank to come.

[RamboLiberal]

9. Ah he probably just wants to protect OxyRush Limbaugh