At the beginning of June 2010 a new bill was adopted for Florida's justice system. SB 2272, also known as Pill Mill Bill, nearly 100% of Florida State Parliament voted and eventually received the support of Governor Charles Cristo.
Health supporters and lobbyists are promoting the approval of bills that for several years require all doctors and pharmacists in the country to record all information on drug prescriptions issued to patients in state-owned, regulated databases. Under the various "Florida" legal "privileges" that are supposed to protect patient records, all practitioners and insurance companies are prohibited from revealing specific medical information without patient consent. But the Florida state court ruled that the prescription record is not part of this protected information.
What are the important provisions of SB 2272?
The new law came into force in October 2010,
- Perform inspection. Pain clinic need not be registered in the past in the past, but this time it is so. The police are currently conducting annual inspections and can obtain patient prescription records without requiring an investigation warrant.
- It imposes stricter penalties. Previously, these unregulated pain clinics, or the pill factory so called by so many people, could work immediately, closed up and quickly moved to another place. This time, the authorities are strict for those who own and operate a pharmaceutical company, such as permanently closing the clinic and claiming the third felony who can charge up to $ 5,000 fine to the owner and the doctor You can imprisonment Every day a felony is committed.
- Tell the doctor to see the patient before prescribing the tablets. Pain management physicians must receive special training before being allowed to own or manage the pain management clinic.
- Prohibited advertisements. This time, the analgesic clinic is prohibited from advertising its products and services in any form or manner.
- Regulate the number of pills issued every day. Under the new law, patients who are not insured can only purchase the medicine you need for 3 days. After that, he must purchase medicine from the pharmacy.
Will the new law become effective?
Floridais saw as a busy hub of drug pushers and drug addicts. Due to the lack of past prescription surveillance methods, many small and time-consuming suppliers and users will deliver, sell, and purchase large amounts of prescription drugs, especially narcotic analgesics such as oxycodone and methadone, in this state of South Eastern Province We gathered for it. We do not claim criminal acts.
However, the new law suffers from many legal pain management clinics and patients who are legitimately required for these analgesics, such as cancer patients and accident survivors. According to them, SB 2272 makes it more difficult to receive the medication the patient actually needs. In addition, Florida state drug dealing refers to possession, purchase, sale and delivery of illegal drugs, so we will not rigidly ruler anyone who possesses a certain amount of drugs.
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