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Everybody Hurts: Paying for Prescription Tracking in Pennies

Possibilities for funding California's now useless prescription drug monitoring program range from charging drug companies a penny or less per prescription or levying a small licensing fee to medical providers and pharmacies.

Everybody Hurts: In the Prescription Drug Tracking Derby, Kentucky Wins

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 36 states have operational Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs that look for patients who are trying to feed an addiction. Only a handful track doctors who are prescribing outside the norm.

Everybody Hurts: Budget Woes a Poor Excuse for Ignoring Drug Abuse

California says it will take millions of dollars to kick start and run a useful database to track prescription drugs. For now, the program appears like a knight hunched over his computer surrounded by stacks of documents, fighting a losing battle against the dragons of painkiller abuse.

Everybody Hurts: Powerful Prescription Database Languishes

Just three years after California Attorney General Jerry Brown – now the governor – announced a newly improved prescription drug tracking system while standing beside a dad who lost his children as a result of prescription drug abuse, that system is all but useless.

Everybody Hurts: Victimized by Prescription Drug Abuse, Father Finds a Cure

After his two children were killed by a driver high on painkillers, Bob Pack worked with California's existing database of prescriptions to create what he called "a built-in red flag system" to help identify prescription drug abuse.

Everybody Hurts: Should Doctors Be Randomly Drug Tested?

The Los Angeles Times found that in four Southern California counties there was more than one death every day from drugs that a doctor prescribed. Can doctors be disciplined for their patients' overdosing?

Complete Health Reporting: Who Can Perform Those Incredible Surgical Feats?

With new devices and procedures, you always need to consider the availability of trained personnel to deliver the approach. You always need to consider the learning curve, too. These can be addressed in just a few words, but they are important context.

Complete Health Reporting: Where Do I Buy That Wonder Pill?

ComicBookMovie.com wrote about a potential Justice League of America film that “this film is almost certainly doomed to fall apart before it can even get going.” We need a little dose of that kind of reality in health reporting.

Testing, Testing: The Cost of Health Care for Health Care’s Sake

After scoring a touchdown, the son of Orange County Register humor columnist Marla Jo Fisher fainted. On game day, he was so nervous he hadn't eaten anything. Still, the coaches wouldn't let him come back to the team until he got checked out.

Complete Health Reporting: Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Treatment

Health writers can help readers understand that less treatment sometimes makes the most sense.

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