Agency, dea, to try to get scheduled narcotics on to electronic prescribing. And after years of bureaucratic battle, finally the regulations came out. I think that facilitates via electronic prescribing Prescription Drug monitoring, when you no longer have to go and ask for the paper scripts from individual doctors or from individual pharmacies, you can look at a database and you can see, wait a minute this, fellow is a podiatrist. Why are they prescribing oxycodo oxycodone . They prescribed 500 capsules last month and now theyre prescribing 5,000. Wait a minute. This person has gone to five doctors in five pharmacies for the same prescription. Whats going on . It opens investigatory doors. And yet, years later, its now electronic prescribing for all this stuff. The Prescription Drug monitoring programs dont seem to have yet really come online as a proper investigative tool to give us the common sense information that we need to make these determinations. What are the best next steps t
State university and the university of south dakota law school. From 1973 through 1990, he was a states attorney and prosecuted hundreds of felony cases. He served as the chief Deputy Attorney general for south dakota. In 2002 was elected t eed the s Dakota Attorney general. He has been a judge since then. He created the 24 7 Sobriety Program you will hear about today. Its a zero Tolerance Program for alcohol abusing offenders that give them a chance to dry out and walk right without going to prison. It has been recognized as being effective, efficient and humane. In 2008, council of state governments saw the merit in the program by awarding it an innovations award. The institute for behavior and Health Awarded it the john p. Mcgovern award in 2009. The national Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave it the life savosavers award in 2. To his left is the honorable stephen ohm. Judge ohm is a former prosecutor and now sits as a judge in hawaii. From 1994 to 2001, he was the United St
Afraid to save the life of a Family Member or a loved one because of legal liability. I recently introduced a bill called the opiate overdose reduction act. Its a simple solution to a problem. It extends protections to people who step in to save the lives of a person who is overdosing by administering a drug and that we need a National Good samaritan law so that people will step in. How many lives do you think would be saved if we had such a law . We know one of prime issues why people overdose and die is failure to call 911 in an emergency. Clearly, signaling to people that they shouldnt be afraid to call 911 is a significant advancement in how were going to reduce overdose deaths. A Good Samaritan law would help here . Absolutely. Do you agree with that. Yes. And i think thats really something we can do to pass a law which does provide that can samaritan protection. Doctor, isnt it true that for opiate addicts in prison, treatment approach that works bet best is combining medication
Are coming back positive. And then in the most severe case, wyoming, more than half of the tests show coronavirus infection. Tomorrow is thanksgiving. What could be im quoting the mother of all superspreader events but the majority of americans show theyre heeding the cdc guidance to not travel. 61 changed the plans. Nearly 1 in 10 say they wont celebrate thanksgiving at all. Several Million People are not staying home. The one thing we do not want is if we get a surge now, george, over thanksgiving well have that slope up plateau and then slope up again that well see in three weeks which is a reason why were trying to hard to get the message for people to be careful over this thanksgiving holiday. In new york the governor is warning the rise in the number of new daily coronavirus cases is only going to get worse. New york city mayor deblasio said he predicts bars, jims and Indoor Dining will be closed within weeks. A hot spot is staten island. Emergency beds are filling up and prompte
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