Delaware prescription drug database signed into law

On Friday July 16th, 2010 the KSCS Executive Director, David Parcher, was honored to be present for the prescription monitoring program to be signed into law by Governor Jack Markel. This is hallmark legislation for the people we serve and our community and Mr. Parcher has been worked in support of the Governor to get this bill through.

Essentially it is a data base that will be centrally maintained by the Delaware Office of Controlled Substances. All physicians and pharmacies will be able to access this data base to determine if a person requesting a prescription for a controlled drug such as Oxycodone has filled any other prescriptions in any pharmacy in Delaware. In other words, if someone is getting multiple prescriptions for the same medication from different doctors this will show up on the data base. We worked hard to get this bill through to law and believe that it will have a major impact on reducing the amount of prescriptions opiates on available on the streets in Delaware.   ( Delaware News-Journal article )

Prescription drug database plan

WBOC News segment on new Delaware prescription drug database plans with Dave Parcher