The law was passed in April and went into effect July 20. The law allows more government oversight on pain clinics, which means regulators can check patient records and prescribing practices, and pain medicine prescribers must use the state’s prescription monitoring system.
Over the past year, the number of daily reports in the prescription monitoring system grew from 3,000 to 18,000 and hydrocodone prescription has dropped 7.5 percent. Oxycodone and Xanax prescriptions dropped 6.4 percent and 9 percent, respectively, from August 2011 to August 2012.
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