because it makes him money....

Scott's proposal stunned legislators, law enforcement officials and others who have been waiting anxiously for two years for a tool that 42 other states use to track the illegal distribution of narcotic drugs from pain clinics. None knew that Scott would propose the repeal.

The law would require doctors and pharmacies to log every prescription for controlled substances. They and police could then check the database to see if a patient has received multiple, excessive prescriptions of narcotic drugs from multiple sources, a common practice among addicts and drug dealers who amass large quantities of drugs from rogue pain clinics.

Officials say pill mills - concentrated in Broward and Palm Beach counties - are the biggest single source of narcotic pills such as oxycodone that claim an estimated seven lives a day in Florida through overdoses. Many blame the proliferation of pill mills on Florida's lack of a database.

Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti said he met last week with Scott, who seemed receptive to the database. He said he told the governor that stopping pill mill abuse is his priority and the database is essential.

"I'm very surprised," Lamberti said. "I stressed that to him, that we really need it as a deterrent. It's no wonder we're ground zero for this stuff. We don't have a deterrent in place."

When word of Scott's proposal circulated Tuesday, protests arose from legislators, community anti-drug organizers, pain doctors and a pain clinic association, all of whom support the database.

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It's a democratic hoax

Sure lives will be lost,but we're talking about profits here.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

"Blatant hypocrisy"

There is no end to Florida governor Rick Scott's hypocrisy on the issue of "pill mills" -- the loosely regulated clinics that liberally dispense OxyContin, oxycodone, and other addictive painkillers to mules who then sell the drugs illegally in other states.
Even though "more oxycodone is distributed illegally in Florida than all other states combined" and "98 of the 100 leading dispensers of these drugs nationally are doctors who reside in Florida," according to the Associated Press, Scott has successfully opposed the funding of a pill-mill database that would track prescription trends and allow law enforcement to see which clinics are dispensing too many prescriptions.

Scott is the founder of Solantic, a chain of pill mills walk-in clinics in Florida. He owns $62 million of Solantic's stock. (He also took campaign contributions from painkiller-maker Pfizer.)

The funding for the database would not have cost taxpayers a dime: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma offered Scott a $1 million grant to pay for the database. But Scott said "no thanks." Here's Alan Must, Purdue'svp/government affairs:

We were so disappointed when we heard that it might go away ... We want this [database] to happen. It doesn't do us any good to have that illegal business in Florida.
The context here is that Purdue's former CEO, R&D chief and chief legal counsel have all been banned from doing business with the federal government and the company paid a $634 million settlement over its history of marketing OxyContin to addicts. In other words, when even Purdue thinks there ought to be more government oversight of its business, we probably ought to listen.


To underline the knots into which Scott has twisted himself to avoid funding the database on the grounds that it was a waste of tax dollars. Yet the pill mill database, as funded by Purdue, would have been a cost-free initiative paid for by a private company eager to inject some transparency into a murky business.

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It's a democratic hoax

Can't have more evidence shining a spotlight on the Sackler cartel's multi billion dollar opioid cooking operation.
As if they don't know they're flooding the black market...

That sleaze ball will be on your ballot in November. Remember this.

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

 

Maybe John Morgan will become our new governor! And then fire up the arsenal to sue the living shit out of everyone involved in this mess & use the settlements to fund things like treatment centers for all the poor souls already dealing with addiction + preventive education for the youth to prevent the next generation becoming sucked in. Drug addiction is an epidemic in our community and something needs to be done. Say what you will about the whole addict choice vs disease  ( or even better keep your opinion to yourself if you've never known anyone close dealing with ) but the truth is something needs to give. It affects us all - from day to day crimes like petty theft car break ins etc to our children seeing it at school or wherever - and if something doesn't change soon it is just going to continue to tear apart our community. It's an epidemic!!!

 

 

 

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get up early and go surf - it'll make that hangover go away and/or make the workday more tolerable :)

Edited: 02/18/2018 at 12:01 PM by surferclimber

Very well and intelligently stated sir.
How this dirtbag got elected twice....?
I brought this issue up because of the continuing slaughter of our children, and the needless endless deaths of addicted folks. And they (the maggot politicians) always sanctmoniously state "we need more treatment, it's a mental health issue".
Not a gun issue. Not a pharmaceutical industry issue........
As they cut the budgets for helping folks with mental health and addictions issues.
And accept a+ ratings and cash and travel junkets from the nra and gun manufacturers.
And, as documented above: make a huge profit from opiate makers.....
and addicts

They's a reckoning coming folks. ENOUGH already!.........
Now: about rick scott and pig sugar destroying our watersports resources

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It's a democratic hoax