Rick Harmon has an excellent piece today on the demise of the area around the Troy Highway and the Southern Boulevard in Montgomery. It is a sad time for that area of the city and Montgomery as a whole.
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There is a good piece on the success of Alabama bloggers in the Birmingham News today. Check it out.
Professor Susan Pace Hamill (many Alabamians hero), got a Christmas Day write up in the New York Times. I think it’s a little heavy handed, but publicity is publicity.
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I do enjoy hearing about the things government is doing right from time to time, and this is definitely one of them. The prescription drug database is an important tool in combating prescription drug abuse, and I’m pleased to see it highlighted in the media.
Alabama is making it easier for pharmacists, doctors and law enforcement to monitor prescription drug sales and spot abuse, illegal sales and suspicious prescribing. Doctors, medical license boards and others have checked the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program database more than 30,000 times since it became functional last year. The database tracks filled prescriptions for class II through class V drugs as defined by Alabama law and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
That includes OxyContin, Xanax, Valium and other painkillers, but not drugs such as antibiotics, for example. Drugs given on-site in hospitals, nursing homes and in-patient hospices also are exempt. The database collects weekly information on filled prescriptions dispensed by doctors, pharmacists, dentists, optometrists and veterinarians.
The practitioners and pharmacists are able to sign in to the database to see if their patients are going to multiple physicians and pharmacies to obtain drugs. Checking is not required, but it is an option for a doctor or a pharmacist if they become suspicious.
“It’s immensely beneficial to me. I wish more people would use it,” said Harrison.
Alabama’s drug database helps spot patients, doctors misusing or selling prescription drugs- al.com
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