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Fri, Apr 20, 2007

Big Brother is Watching (Your Prescriptions)

Posted at 8:14 pm MDT to Current Events

Whenever I get my prescriptions filled, the pharmacist goes through this big routine that's supposed to protect patient privacy. I'd like to know why they bother ... apparently, for the past two years, there have been federally funded databases of prescription information in all the states, which pretty much anyone who's got a law enforcement badge from any source (possibly including Cracker Jack ™ boxes). It's called the National All Schedules Prescription Electronic reporting Act of 2005.

Avram Grumer on Making Light found out about it because he noticed a CNN article that mentioned that according to the federal databases Cho at Virgina Tech had never taken anti-depressants.

Arg. just.... arg.

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