Mo. House passes prescription database bill

By The Associated Press

Thursday, March 8, 2012

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House has passed legislation creating an electronic database to track prescription drug purchases. But the bill faces opposition in the Senate.

The bill would direct the department of health to set up the database but would require funding to come from private donations. Supporters say the database could prevent cases of doctor shopping and drug abuse. They point to instances in which people are getting prescriptions from multiple doctors to feed addictions or sell the drugs on the black market.

House members passed the legislation 143-6 Thursday. But a similar bill ran into a threatened filibuster earlier this week in the Senate, where some members described it as an infringement on liberty.

Missouri and New Hampshire are the only states without laws authorizing prescription databases.

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Prescription bill is HB1193.

Online:

Legislature: http://www.moga.mo.gov

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Comments

spelchek 1 year, 2 months ago

I agree with the liberty concerns, yet those are addressable. All in all, from what I've read this database has proven effective.

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tonto_goldberg 1 year, 2 months ago

Wasn't there a celebrity who had problems with that a couple years back? Doctor shopping, prescription pain killers and erectile dsyfunction meds, I believe it was. The ACLU even filed a brief on his behalf.

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spelchek 1 year, 2 months ago

Oh, you mean Rush Limbaugh. How do you know so much about his ED?

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wyriontair 1 year, 2 months ago

Sorry, we don't need anymore intrusion into our lives.

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