The CDC is trying to make it easier for doctors to have all the information of their patients at hand within a better time frame. As of now it takes at least two weeks before one doctor may even know if a patient is taking any other kind of prescription drug, if this is the first time the patient has seen this doctor. The CDC has reported that more than 15 million Americans have abused perscription drugs just last year. The CDC is making it easier and quicker by giving out more than $2 million for states to upgrade their databases.
This article is a good example of the government doing something productive. If all doctors were able to view, immediatelly, which kinds of drugs their patients are already on then this could possibly help lower the number of people who overdose, by accident, on prescription drugs. And even help control the abuse of prescription drugs, that take so many lives, by patients. Chapter 4, discussed some of these drugs and their affects on the body and mind. Either I missed it or it was not in the book, but I did not realize that patients could abuse Ritilin.
The Parade, Herald Newspaper, Oct. 2009
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