State lawmakers on Thursday afternoon approved the creation of a vastly expanded database of prescriptions taken by Pennsylvanians in the hopes that it would help curb abuse of prescription drugs and heroin.Gov. Tom Corbett has 10 days to sign the bill into law. A spokeswoman said he was likely to do so.
The amended bill approved by the state House of Representatives on Tuesday and the Senate on Thursday would take a limited prescription drug registry, currently held in the attorney general’s office, and expand it. The database would be housed in the state Department of Health and include medications taken for a wide variety of ailments. Read More at The Reading Eagle →