The government and your prescription privacy

[lesliepear]

Take a look at this LJ entry:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/exileinparadise/151551.html?view=128255#t128255

I'm not too thrilled with government seeing all anexity, depression, sleep and painkiller prescriptions, especially since many of them can be for short term chronic conditions.

Comments

[christilyn.livejournal.com]

Charming...

Ugh.

[scarlett75.livejournal.com]

Well. That article is right and wrong. The government is going to put small GPS tags on some medications (oxycodone, paxil, and ambien) so that they can be tracked from the manufacturer to the distributor. A great, great number of those pills go "missing" between those two points. Think of this as quality control. Once the pills come out of the original packaging and into your prescription bottle, they will no longer be "tracked". TIME magazine had a very large article about this a few weeks ago.

[tahoebean.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this link -- I wrote my senators. I don't want to be labeled as a "possible criminal" for being bipolar, either. :)

[secanth.livejournal.com]

I'm all for tracking from manufacturer to final destination, but once it hits my pharmacy, the 'tracking' tag should come off. As with any type of medical information, who the pharmacy fills the perscription for should be on a 'need to know' basis. In other words, they'd better have some damn good 'probable cause' to go sticking their noses into my medicine drawer...one certified by a judge.