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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
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