The Florida legislature mandated that the Prescription Drug Monitoring Database go online by December 1, 2010. However, shortly after taking office, Governor Scott fought the program's implementation. He initially asked the legislature to repeal the law. Further delays were caused by typical bureaucratic red tape, as well as, law suits filed by feuding contractors who sought approval to build and service the computerized network.
Deaths Fuel Efforts to Start Electronic Monitoring of Drug Dispensing
Advocates for the program point out that at one point, Florida had more "pill mills" than McDonalds. It is likewise well documented that Florida doctors prescribe ten times the number of oxycodone pills prescribed by doctors in all other states combined. Consider this...In the first five months of last year alone, Florida pharmacies dispensed 236 million doses of oxycodone and medical practitioners bought an additional 35 million doses.
Unscrupulous doctors, doctor shopping, felony drug possession, prescription fraud, drug trafficking and street level sales all contributed to last year's death toll of seven Floridians per day. In fact, Pinellas county led the state in 2010 with the most prescription drug related deaths. Most of these fatalities were related to oxycodone, alprazolam, diazepam, hydrocodone morphine and methadone. The death numbers keep climbing. A recent report revealed that prescription drug related deaths rose almost 9% in 2010 from those the previous year.
Pinellas County - In The Lime Light of Prescription Fraud Detection
Given all the attention Pinellas county has received related to prescription drug abuse, our office believes that medical practioners and law enforcement intend to make full use of the new electronic prescription drug monitoring system. Sgt. Dan Zsido, who is the supervisor of the Pinellas Strategic Diversion Task Force, has been quoted as saying that it is "alarming" that Pinellas leads the state in prescription drug related deaths. Experts contend that the new database will "correct" that problem. "Correcting the problem" can only be interpreted as meaning a more aggressive law enforcement intervention into local prescription fraud.
On October 25th, A&E's Jeff VanVonderen, from the hit show "Intervention" will be appearing at the St. Petersburg's Coliseum. He will be joining Pinellas county Drug court judge, Dee Anna Farnell and Robert Neri, who is the senior vice president of WestCare Treatment Centers. The group will also include State Representative Darryl Rouson. The panel discussion will be mderated by Bay News 9 anchor Veronica Cintron. Its a good bet that those in attendance will be told to anticipate a significant rise in the number of arrests that will take place in the St. Petersburg and Clearwater area as a result of this new prescription fraud detection tool.
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