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California Attorney General Kamala Harris seeks money for prescription database

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A system that tracks prescription drugs and has assisted in several celebrity death investigations is in jeopardy of ending, prompting California's top law enforcement official to seek new funding. The state created the nation's first prescription drug monitoring program in 1939 and shifted to a computerized database in 1997. The online system tracks prescriptions written by doctors and filled by pharmacies. Read More

California prescription drug program needs a lifeline

Traditional police work wouldn't have nabbed Dr. Lisa Barden for visiting 43 pharmacies to illegally obtain tens of thousands of pain pills to fuel her own addiction. Read More

Illegal sales of prescription drugs booming in Tenderloin

It may not come as a surprise, but the Tenderloin just happens to be a place where illegal drugs are sold. What may be more surprising is that a growing majority of those drugs were at one point legal. Read More
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