Because heroin and prescription painkillers, the opioid painkillers, are the same. They're just. One is processed in a lab, one is processed in a legal drug plant. But ultimately, chemically, they're essentially the same. Right now, our prescription drug monitoring program does not give us the ability to take a look at prescribing practices. The only thing we can do is look at a particular patient and see what prescriptions they've gotten. We are right now in the process of working to the contract with the prior provider for that program is expiring. (44:26–44:35)
CLAIM
Asserts that the current prescription drug monitoring program cannot review prescribing practices.
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