ENCOURAGING MONITORING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
- 02/23/2008 (1:01:11 pm)
- Media
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Day 22- February 22, 2008
Tonight on Lawmakers, Governor Sonny Perdue announces how the State plans to help the Clayton County School System. The 2008 Supplemental Budget is headed for a Conference Committee and legislation designed to monitor the use of prescription drugs is headed to the House floor.
Representative Ron Stephens says he hopes to prevent tragedies like the Chris Benoit family murder/suicide by encouraging monitoring of prescription drugs. House Bill 455 would to create a statewide database to be monitored by Georgia’s Drugs and Narcotics Agency. It would require pharmacists to report prescriptions they fill in an effort to stop what has been referred to as “drug shopping”. Lawmakers Bridget Snapp reports.
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